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TIL the USSR named their space station "peace"
IIRC it also means "world".
So... "world peace" is just....? Google returns a phrase that it translates back into "peace in everything," but the word does repeat in that phrase. I'm sure it's a contextual thing and I know some things just don't carry over between languages, but now I'm interested in how Russian works.
That would be мир во всем мире, literally peace in all the world
I've also heard миру мир: "peace to the world".
I see it more often
I think it would be one of those small things that constantly amuses me to the bewilderment of natives. One single letter stops this from being misread as "in everything, peace," no? If even that?
Not really, that extra letter is a noun case, it serves grammar only. I guess the word all (всем) is what helps distinguish between the meanings here. It belongs to the semantic field of mir as in the world, while Russians don't use it together with mir as in peace.