• zabadoh@ani.social
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    3 months ago

    I was thinking Engels doesn’t sound Russian or Ukrainian, so is the war spreading to Germany?

    Then I remembered “Marx and Engels” and probably somewhere in Russia…

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      3 months ago

      Engels is indeed German, it means something like “of the angel” (angel in genitive singular case). But it’s a name so translations are of limited use.

      The airbase is named after the famous author, Friedrich Engels, who worked closely with Karl Marx.