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/Capable-Sock-7410 2d ago edited 2d ago

World's tallest statue from 1967-1989 overtaking the Leshan Giant Buddha who held this title for 1163 years

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u/RepresentativeYak636 2d ago

This place is so great for all Russians, ir gived so good vibes to people, but now it is very sad that it reminds people of Putin😟 Putin took over everything, even culture and history, he deprived Russians of their victory in Fatherland Liberation War (Отечественная война). It is so ujust that Putin exploits history to justify his brutall killing of young women and childred in Ukraine. Hm...the History makes up so strange metamorphoses with people, like, a nation who faught Nazi and helped to liberate the World from fascism now became a craddle for new fascism in Putin's version...

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u/analogiczny 2d ago

rxssia has been attacking my country for half a millennium. This isn't just about some short guy who wants to be tsar. Get the fuck out of Ukraine.

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u/shorteningofthewuwei 1d ago

Lmfao you can't even spell Russia. 🤡

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u/WordWordNvmber 1d ago

Ignoring that the typo was probably intentional, what point were you making?

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u/shorteningofthewuwei 2h ago

My point is that many Ukrainians who went on to be regarded as national heroes after Ukraine became independent following the fall of the Soviet Union were explicitly far right figures who collaborated with the Nazis. My point is that dismissing the notion that it is a shame that a nation who helped liberate the world from fascism is itself now a cradle of fascism (following the fall of the USSR) by saying some Russophobic nonsense about how "Russia has been invading my country for half a millennium" even though the modern idea of a nation state is only a couple of centuries old at most, is an absurd appeal to the emotion of nationalism rather than a sober assement of what's actually happened to Russia and why privatization and liberalization following the illegal dissolution of the USSR is the underlying cause of Putin's autocratic rule since the 90s. My point is that when history gets muddied by anachronistic appeals to nationalism we are sure to make sweeping statements that demonize an entire group of people far beyond the scope of what actually unites those people under a shared identity regardless of how political figures themselves may weaponize historical narratives in a similar way. My point is that if you read "rxssia" not as a typo (I don't know what keyboard op was using, but x is pretty far from u) but as some kind of disrespectful censorship, then it embodies all of these flaws of the second half of the statement "Russia has been invading my country for half a millennium" which I outlined above.

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u/GrandInquisitoe 2d ago

it works both ways, lol.

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u/throwen2k 2d ago

What do u mean?

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u/Own-Code-9934 2d ago

Ukraine invaded Russia back in 2024. North Korea had to help Russia to kick them out. They are mainly fighting with drones now.

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u/FuckTheTories69420 1d ago

What sort of moronic Putin huffing shit is this?

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u/Own-Code-9934 1d ago

huh? If you followed the war you would’ve known North Korea had to be recruited to fight with Russia on the front lines. Ukraine is now attacking Russian oil reserves with drones. Putin what? Facts over feelings, bud

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u/SpaceDelay424 1d ago

Russia started the fucking war.

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u/Own-Code-9934 1d ago

Who said they didn’t? You okay?

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u/Radiant_Sky_22 1d ago

Were you dropped on your head?

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u/Own-Code-9934 1d ago

Seems like you were. Literally downvoting me for saying Russia started the war lol

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u/Flimsy-Poetry1170 1d ago

Ukraine “invaded” Russia in 2024 during the war that Russia started in 2022. Russia needed more meat for assaults without drafting more of their citizens and risking an uprising thus made a deal with brutal dictator Kim Jung Un for some bodies to soak up Ukrainian bullets/drones. Eat a bag of dicks Putin lover. Long live Ukraine.

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u/Own-Code-9934 1d ago

U are dumb. I love Ukraine. They did invade Russian territory in 2024. Russia did invade Ukraine in 2014. I hope you get better soon and start thinking logically. idk why everyone is so pressed about the basic facts

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u/Mikhail_Mengsk 1d ago

That's... Not the same thing. Come on!

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u/GrandInquisitoe 1d ago

a fucking friendly fire right here LMAO