Talk:Seventeen Moments of Spring

Untitled
"A TV film series"? Is that like a miniseries? It would be helpful to know how long each part was and how many parts there were. Recury 13:21, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * There were 12 parts, and each one was around 70 mins. Esn 05:58, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

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Stirlitz's Car
The car which is used as personal car of Stirlitz is Mercedes-Benz 260 D —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.0.210.102 (talk) 14:12, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

More Than Life at Stake / Stawka większa niż życie
The general belief in Poland, is that Seventeen Moments is the Russian response to the Polish More Than Life at Stake. It is often said, that Russian propaganda had to show Russians to be better than the satelite countries, thus Stiglitz had a higher rank than Kloss in Life. Perhaps this should be mentioned in the article, especially as More Than Life at Stake is an older series; it might be hard to get an English source though and this can be highly controversial. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.10.157.111 (talk) 14:56, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thus your position the the  NOVEL  "SMS" was the Russian response to the Polish MOVIE? Do you regard it probable huh? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asterno (talk • contribs) 14:11, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Tikhonov's medal
Suggest making a different translation of the medal's name. Содружество (sodruzhestvo) is "unity", "bond of friendship", and in this case, "camaraderie". The merits that bestow the medal to its recipient are listed under the link - this medal is for strenghthening the camaraderie and efficient communication and cooperation during military, intelligence or state/public security operations in Russia or abroad. The camaraderie/cooperation in question can extend between FSB, internal affairs forces, Russian military; and also security, intelligence or military forces of other countries. The recipient can belong to any of these, or be a civilian of any nationality.

Thus the suggested name of the medal could be "Medal of the Combat Camaraderie". Considering it can be awarded for non-combat actions, the phrasing can be changed to "Medal of the Fighting Camaraderie" or "Medal of the Service Camaraderie". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.195.133.208 (talk) 22:21, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

songs lyrics
for what i know, the lyrics to the songs were not written by composer himself but by Robert_Rozhdestvensky 85.90.120.180 (talk) 08:57, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Translation of title
In his book "The Russians", Hedrick Smith translated the title into far better English as "Seventeen moments in spring". English simply doesn't use the preposition "of" as much as other languages do (or, in this case, as a translation of the genitive case), and a different preposition is often needed (e.g. "the biggest city in the world", not "....of the world", a mistake that is all too often seen on Wikipedia). I would correct this myself, but I'm afraid it'll just get corrected back by non-native speakers of English, and I really can't be bothered.....188.230.240.75 (talk) 12:21, 10 May 2017 (UTC)


 * This translation of the title is an interesting and relevant fact, and you explain it well. That said, I don't think it would justify renaming the article, in and of itself. The title should be the commonly used one. This is clearly the one that we are presently using, "Seventeen Moments of Spring". I'd totally support adding this fact to the article body though. --Keithonearth (talk) 21:26, 20 October 2018 (UTC)