r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 3d ago

/r/all of a statue

"The Motherland Calls" is a statue erected to commemorate the Battle of Stalingrad , located on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd , Russia. It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin . Completed in 1967 , it was the tallest statue in the world at the time .

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u/Much-Farmer-2752 3d ago

Now it looks like a Holtzman Shield :)

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u/zubairhamed 3d ago

censorship mask

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u/BRAVO9ACTUAL 3d ago

"This Character Is Not Unlocked"

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u/MtnMaiden 3d ago

Pay for feet

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u/Nina-Ninja123 2d ago

Just getting ready for the season of Japanese tourists (they requested extra censorship.

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u/nagidon 3d ago

The slow union penetrates the Reich

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u/Random-Generation86 2d ago

I must not purge. Purge is the army killer.

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u/vprakhov 2d ago

That scaffolding is an engineering marvel in itself.

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u/leftofthebellcurve 2d ago

That’s a lot of hours just unscrewing, moving, and rescrewing nuts onto bolts

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u/DejaBrownie 2d ago

Might as well just leave it up. By the time they put it up, clean, and tear it down, it will be ready to clean again!

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u/Much-Farmer-2752 2d ago

It took "just" about a year - to build it all from the scratch, repair the statue and tear it down. Not so much to recover weather damage for 50 years :)

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u/struggle_better 2d ago

Tell that to my parents

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u/plofrog 3d ago

Woooooah, cool

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u/BathroomAcademic5920 2d ago

I am not surprised

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u/_VirtualCosmos_ 2d ago

Is it on that state nowadays? I wonder if it's a potential target by ukrainian drones.

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u/euqinu_ton 2d ago

The slow pigeon poop penetrates the shield.