Meaning of Mother Russia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A national personification of Russia as a woman, appearing in patriotic posters, statues, etc.
2. Russia.
   metonymically

Examples

“We did not understand what it was all about; but we were defending Mother Russia.”

“In the thirties and forties, they were the Marxists talkin' about spreading Mother Russia's legs around the world; now it's sing along with the black man.”

“Collective daydreaming shut down when we boarded the Soviet-made airliner in Korea. Next stop Mother Russia.”

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