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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prestoninanus, post: 828399, member: 20205&quot;]You learn something new every day. I didn&#039;t know that. I just assumed Russians always refered to Russia as their &#039;motherland&#039; just as people from the former colonies of the British Empire sometimes refer to Britain as the &#039;mother country&#039;.</p><p>&nbsp;Its interesting that the fascist Vichy regime tried to refer to France in the masculine sense, because the french traditionally call their country &#039;La&#039; (feminine) France, rather than &#039;le&#039; (masculine) France... Refering to one&#039;s country in the masculine or feminine sense seems to depend on whether that person prefers to view their country as one which nutures its citizens or one which projects its strength over other countries (which is ironic considering Vichy France was essentially a submissive puppet state of Nazi Germany)...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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