What's the difference? They were involved in what is colloquially known as WWII. They just refer to their specific part differently amongst themselves, but they certainly did have WWII.
shermantanktop 1 hours ago [-]
I believe the offense is that here, on an English language website with a mostly American and Western European audience, the term used was insufficiently deferential to how Russians would refer to it in Russian.
applicative 25 minutes ago [-]
We should deferentially deny that the Soviet Union invaded Poland and Finland? I will try this when people mention Vietnam, Iraq etc.
t-3 2 hours ago [-]
It's called a world war in english because everyone and everywhere was at war during that time. Pretty much every group has a name for it in their own language.
worik 8 minutes ago [-]
> because everyone and everywhere was at war during that time.
The Soviet Union did not have WWII. They had the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.
There is a difference there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
No, that is incorrect