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Labor army

Spanish translation: columnas laborales

19:26 Mar 26, 2021
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics / Historias sobre el totalitarismo en Europa
English term or phrase: Labor army
The Crimean Tatar people were one of the many groups of people who were deported by that regime in May 1944, from Crimea to Central Asia and northern Russia. During the first years of NKVD surveillance, canceled only in 1956, the nation lost about half of its population. That was mainly children, women, and old men, including Crimean Tatar soldiers who had fought against Nazi Germany and worked in the labor army.
There are plenty of bright and patriotic individuals in the history of the national struggle for the return of the Crimean Tatars to their homeland.
Guillermo de la Puerta
Local time: 05:50
Spanish translation:columnas laborales
Explanation:
Former Soviet militarized ethnic labor formations

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Note added at 21 mins (2021-03-26 19:47:42 GMT)
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_labor_columns
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Orkoyen (X)
United States
Local time: 23:50
Grading comment
Muchas gracias :)
Saludos

Guillermo
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3columnas laborales
Orkoyen (X)
4 +1Ejército obrero
Ignacio González Sánchez
4Trabajo forzado
Rosa Paredes


  

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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
labor army
columnas laborales


Explanation:
Former Soviet militarized ethnic labor formations

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Note added at 21 mins (2021-03-26 19:47:42 GMT)
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_labor_columns

Orkoyen (X)
United States
Local time: 23:50
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Muchas gracias :)
Saludos

Guillermo

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jerónimo Arambasic: Exactly
35 mins
  -> Gracias Jerónimo
agree  Daniel Delgado: "In later literature these formations were informally referred to as "labor army", in an analogy with Soviet Labor armies of 1920–1921,"
45 mins
  -> Gracias Daniel
neutral  Rosa Paredes: Thanks for including the link, I was not familiar with the term "labor army". Is columnas laborales your own translation?
1 hr
  -> I just literally translated based on the link I provided. Still, I wasn’t sure how the phrase would fall on the ears of fluent Spanish speakers.
agree  Liana Kamenova
2 days 11 hrs
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Trabajo forzado


Explanation:
Hola Guillermo, pienso que se trata de un error (?)
"Like the other deported peoples, the Crimean Tatars were placed under the regime of special settlements. Many of those deported performed forced labor: their tasks included working in coal mines and construction battalions, under the supervision of the NKVD. Deserters were executed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tat...
Saludos!

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Note added at 1 hr (2021-03-26 20:53:16 GMT)
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I realize it is not a mistake thanks to the other answer proposed. Given the characteristics of the 'labor army', it was indeed 'trabajo forzado'.

Rosa Paredes
Canada
Local time: 23:50
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 24
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2 days 19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
labor army
Ejército obrero


Explanation:
Refiere al Ejército Rojo de Obreros y Campesinos, que fue la denominación oficial del ejército y la fuerza aérea de la República Socialista Federativa Soviética de Rusia y, después de 1922, de la Unión Soviética. Fueron los regimientos del Ejército Rojo transferidos de la actividad militar a la actividad obrera. Es por eso que no podemos dejar de lado el término "army" como "ejército" y debería incluirse en la traducción.


    https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ej%C3%A9rcito_Rojo
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_army
Ignacio González Sánchez
Uruguay
Local time: 00:50
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Luis M. Sosa
1 hr
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