Solzhenitsyn says it better then me.
When I was listening to Obama speaking yesterday it felt like I was listening to my high school history teacher in the USSR who of course was the secretary of the school teachers communist organization. It is insulting and ridiculous.
I bet it was not his speech writer, but Obama himself who put the Great Patriotic War in his prepared remarks.
Probably Obama just wants to pass on to his daughters what he was taught as a boy.