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Motherland is used to refer to Russia as a whole, while Fatherland is generally used militarily. This is less common now adays, but Fatherland was most likely used to display masculinity and strength.
Thanks. It was not obvious. I wonder how well the distinction is appreciated by the target young audience? I know that the young seem to simplify their use of language.
It probably isn’t, if anything the instructor might have to explain why it says fatherland and not motherland in the first place.
In fairness to that poster though, the article text is in the body of the post, so a translation error was ported over to Lemmy. This has nothing to do with “read past the headline”; they did read past the headline but the article body was wrong when transposed.
No need to be snarky; it’s not the poster’s fault that there was an error at source.
Edit - For context, the above comment is not what I was responding to. I don’t know if the above user has edited their comments, or if a Lemmy bug means I saw some old comment, but the comment I was responding to was belittle the poster for not “reading past the headline”.
Yeah you saw an older comment I didnt write, I downvoted it since the other guy had translated wrong.