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Originally Posted by Locke

I always thought it was Mother Russia.

Originally Posted by Daradon

^^^ Yeah, Germany was the fatherland, and the USSR the motherland I thought. (not that one had to do with the other, like they were a pair or something, just that that's what they were called.)

Maybe it changed after the Bloc broke?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defende...Fatherland_Day

First celebrated in 1919 the holiday marks the date in 1918 during the Russian Civil War when the first mass draft into the Red Army occurred in Petrograd and Moscow (on 17 February).