Footnote: Ethnicity-Affirming Name Change

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I never knew that Soviet army group denominations—such as the ‘Ukrainian Fronts’—were ethnically determined.

Let’s leave aside the ludicrously stupid notion of such crude ex post ‘nationalism’ vs. the brutalising realities of the ‘New Soviet Man’, which was an early, if under-considered, experiment in social (re)constructivism very much at odds with reality not unlike today’s gender+ moment.

As to the historical revisionism at-work in the above bird dropping (source), let’s also remember the following facts about the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts (courtesy of the Ministry of Truth™):

And here’s the comparable information for the other army group:

Bottom Lines

If it weren’t for that ethnicity-affirming name change, Vienna would have been ‘liberated from Nazi Germany’ by the Steppe and Southwestern Fronts.

I suppose that would, technically, entitle Ghengis Khan to claim the mantle of liberator.

As an aside, let’s not forget that it was the Stavka, i.e., the Soviet General Staff (which, in its present-day Russian incarnation, still exists, by the way) that ‘created’ these two ‘Ukrainian’ army groups.

What an apt, if ludicrously, absurd comment, Mr. Ambassador.

If you’d be in my history class, that’s a resounding ‘F’.