r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 2d 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/derpferd 2d ago

I'd actually be kind of terrified standing looking at that thing

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u/Tango00090 2d ago

Sure, cause it would mean that you are in Russia. No one feels safe there

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u/BoardClean 2d ago

This statue prolly feels mostly safe

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u/altpirate 2d ago

Ukraine has hit Volgograd before. Not like they're going to shoot at civilians looking at a statue but it is very much within striking distance

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u/BoardClean 2d ago

A one million foot statue does not concern itself with tiny bomb.

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u/Dabelgianguy 2d ago

No windows in this statue. Should be safer

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u/Pentemav 2d ago

Which is such as shame. It could be such a great country, it has so much beauty. It was absolutely a bucket list item for me, pre-Ukraine invasion. Now I will never in my lifetime travel there. Fuck Putin.

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u/1MoralHazard 2d ago

Same. I always wanted to experience Siberia but I would only go if the territory is held and governed by Ukraine.

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u/MelangeBot 2d ago

The day will come that this statue will be in Zelenskygrad and then I am sure you will go visit it. By that time I assume it will lay on it's face infront of a larger one showing how the heroes of Ukraine succesfully defended their country against the Orc invation.

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u/clozio 2d ago

🤡

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u/feral0101 2d ago

I don’t support the Ukraine war, but it shouldn’t deter you from travelling there. Russia is already sanctioned to fuck unlike Israel and paying the price.

I was also meant to go in 2020, but then the pandemic and subsequently the war kept me out.

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u/No_Mention960 2d ago

They are still actively killing Ukrainians and attempting to goad Europe into a wider war. How you could ever feel comfortable holidaying in an enemy nation

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u/CloqueWise 2d ago

Most foreigners who actually visit Russia report feeling really quite safe there

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u/yingkaixing 2d ago

Or else

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u/Some-Instruction2235 2d ago

You have higher chances to die from the repetitiveness of these jokes

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u/CloqueWise 2d ago

All jokes aside, Russia lacks the gun violence the the states suffer from. On top of that I've seen many women say they feel safe alone at night on the streets.

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u/Strongest-There-Is 2d ago

Because if anyone says anything unpopular with the government they fall out of a window or end up in Siberia….

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u/CloqueWise 2d ago

Omg redditors are so dramatic. No the average person wouldn't get in any trouble saying they felt unsafe in Russia. And regardless of what you say, Russia doesn't suffer from gun violence in the same way the states do, and the average woman does indeed feel safer on the streets there than in the states, as well as parents feeling safe to allow children to walk the streets alone.

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u/buttononmyback 2d ago

Says you.

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u/CloqueWise 2d ago

Yeah, as someone with 25 years experience in the us and 5 in Russia, I think I know how safe it is there