Ive heard both Doroga lyubvi, and Doroga zhizni used to describe it in reports. The Road of Life is also a play, two movies, and a Novella, so its popularly misrepresented as The Road of Life, when it was commonly referred to in the field and those who drove over it as 'The Road of Love'
Also a big fan of Tolstoy "all my arguments showing the backwardness, anachronism, and harmfulness of patriotism have been met, and are still met, either by silence, by intentional misinterpretation, or by a strange unvarying reply to the effect that only bad patriotism (Jingoism or Chauvinism) is evil, but that real good patriotism is a very elevated moral feeling, to condemn which is not only irrational but wicked."
Its not uncommon for a nation to control a historical narrative. It happens here in the US too. You have to, as a lover of history, attempt to parse through the inaccuracies based on bias or preconception. Regardless of if the soldier or historian was Muscovite or Croat or German or American or Japanese, the events happened as they did, the what where when, the 'why' is left to the philosophers, like Tolstoy.
For example military historian Andrew Nagorski and the current administration over there, have some rather differing views on The Great Patriotic War. Just as over here, greats like SLA Marshall, or David Halberstam, bring history that contradicts the popular narrative of Vietnam or the Korean 'War'.
But I tend to agree what happened in past should ramain on responsibility of the one who did it.
