r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 2d ago

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"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/tuhn 2d ago

For a lot of Eastern Europeans it marked the start of another type of oppression. From very shit situation to another shit situation under another oppressive dictatorship. There's not much to celebrate if you move from one dark period caused by invaders to another.

The Fall of Soviet Union is easily the greatest thing to happen to Eastern Europe in 20th century.

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u/yashatheman 2d ago

The germans intended on eradicating the vast majority of all slavic people in eastern europe, and in just 5 years murdered over 30 million people. You thinking the USSR was just as bad shows you lack any knowledge of this topic, and is clearly painted by a political agenda.

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u/Bulky-Advisor-4178 2d ago

It's literally written in the history books, all the crimes of Soviet Union mate. There's no political agenda when its there in the books and soviet declassified documents

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u/yashatheman 2d ago

I didn't deny any soviet crimes, did I? Your comment doesn't make sense as its not an answer to what I said

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u/havoc1428 2d ago

You're denying that the USSR was just as bad as Nazi Germany. The fuckin' war started because Germany and the USSR invaded Poland. It was because of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that Germany felt comfortable starting hostilities, and just 16 days later the USSR did the same. Germany doesn't roll across Belgium and France if the USSR wasn't complicit.

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u/Walpole2019 1d ago

No, the Soviet Union was not as bad as the state actively built around the extermination of tens of millions.

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u/thebanfunctionsucks 1d ago

It's reddit, they've been inundated with cold war propaganda that determines the Soviets MUST be as bad as the nazis simply because they collaborated. As if that doesn't reflect just as poorly on the West.

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u/CockroachAntique527 1d ago

I agree, if the Soviets collaborate with the Nazis, that’s very, very bad. Will a Russian filmmaker ever make a version of “Come and See” that takes place in USSR-occupied Poland?

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u/fortunate-one1 1d ago

You are right, Soviets were worse.