The Great Russian Rectification of Names

On February 24, 2022, Russia was forced to launch a special military operation (SMO) to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. The SMO had not only geopolitical, military and ethical prerequisites. In order to understand the significance of the SMO, it should be viewed in the larger context of Russian culture, Russian history, and Russian philosophy, which has its own tradition of reflection on war.

I want to start with the fact that when we first started discussing this topic and I became interested in female patriotism and how it differs from male patriotism, I was surprised that the word "patriot" has a feminitive. And this is not a Newspeak unlike "redaktorka" and not even a Soviet legacy, where for every profession name there was a feminitive analog. The word "patriotka" (feminine for patriot in Russian language) dates back to the 19th century.