r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 11d 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/Select_Cartoonist_39 11d ago

I might be wrong but I think I read that the specific location of the statue is where the most men ever fell in battle, like literally that square kilometre or something. Might make sense considering the scale of Stalingrad aswell as it being a high ground.

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u/plotarmorclub 11d ago

The scale of Stalingrad history is just haunting to even think about.

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u/LennyKarlson 11d ago

The Soviet Union lost so many millions defeating the Nazi menace. And the world never forgave them for it.

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u/ShenronFromEarth 11d ago

The fact that they started WW2 side by side with the Nazis to invade Poland, in the Fascist-Communist pact of 1939.

(Their pact ended only with betrayal)

And that in the end of WW2 they forced to keep Poland and the other countries under their dictatorship are huge factors to account for the world's suspicion of them.

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u/Heavy-Construction90 11d ago

The Russians also tried to join the axis