What's the difference between motherland and rodina?
Motherland
Definition:
(n.) The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vladimir Putin painted a colourful picture of Russia's protesters on Thursday, describing them as agents of the west, attending useless demonstrations with condoms pinned to their chests as they sought the downfall of the motherland.
(2) This [India] is my motherland and I'd like to have an impact."
(3) Putin also granted a medal for “services to the motherland” to a man British police say poisoned former security services agent Alexander Litvinenko.
(4) He offers a simple, well-honed defence to convince both himself and his interrogators of his innocence: "I made it to protect the motherland.
(5) Afterwards, in a sign that she has not yet lost her caustic side, Sobchak wrote in her Tatler column: "Bozhena equally suffers for the fate of her motherland as for the fate of her fur coats."
(6) This is the fucking motherland,” a middle-aged member of the crowd, who gave his name as CL Fu, told Reuters.
(7) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
(8) The moving occasion of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland … like a long-separated child coming back to the warm embrace of his mother, is still vivid in our memory,” Xi told a dinner on Friday night.
(9) A few in the youthful crowd bore pictures of Mao Zedong and banners and placards ranged from the provocative — "For the respect of the motherland, we must go to war with Japan" — to the more polite: "Behave yourself, Japanese!"
(10) Nor are Russia's filthy rich too patriotic about the motherland.
(11) Beijing loyalists in Hong Kong’s legislature will say, ‘We need to protect the integrity of the motherland, you’re not allowed to say things like ‘Hong Kong is not China.’’ They worry these sentiments will spread to places like Tibet and Xinjiang, western Chinese provinces with large populations of ethnic minorities and a history of chafing under Beijing’s yoke.
(12) The 70-year-old said he was " deeply troubled by a feeling of great unease that our beloved motherland is losing its sense of direction , and that we are allowing ourselves to progress towards a costly disaster of a protracted and endemic general crisis".
(13) "We came back to our motherland and we will not leave again.
(14) A lmost before they had cleared up the vodka bottles in Lenin Square, scene of the party to celebrate Crimea's reunification with the motherland in Moscow , the well-planned moves kicked into place.
(15) The movement saw black communities in the US as a colony in the motherland; the struggle against US imperialism was central from its inception.
(16) But the Russian people have rallied around their leader Vladimir Putin … Long live our great motherland Russia!
(17) The Crimean peninsula is predominantly Russian-speaking, and despite splitting away from their eastern neighbour 60 years ago, many in the region still look longingly over the border to what they see as their motherland.
(18) We will stand as one, united in the cause of protecting our motherland's integrity."
(19) Suharto, with tens of thousands of others from the disbanded force, joined Peta, the Volunteer Army of Defenders of the Motherland, whose explicit aim was to help Japan defend Indonesia against invasion by the western allies.
(20) Eventually, the police decided to drop the charges, and five women including Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina pulled on brightly coloured balaclavas and ran down the steps, singing: 'Putin will teach you to love the motherland'.
Rodina
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2004-2008 he was an MP in Russia's state Duma, first for the nationalist Rodina party, then for the Kremlin-supporting United Russia and Fair Russia .
(2) The idea of rodina – homeland – is central to being Russian.
(3) The Russian motherland – the rodina – had been divided, then preyed upon by its enemies.
(4) There have been other attempts to form nationalist parties, most notably Rodina (Motherland), once led by Dmitry Rogozin, a well-known nationalist who is now Moscow's envoy to Nato.
(5) He is, equally, an opportunist and an ideologue – a passionate, patriotic Russian nationalist, fiercely proud of the Motherland (the beloved Rodina) and determined to restore lost greatness.