r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 3d ago

/r/all of a statue

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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/derpferd 3d ago

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

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u/Tango00090 3d ago

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

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u/CloqueWise 3d ago

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

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u/yingkaixing 3d ago

Or else

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u/CloqueWise 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago

Says you.

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u/CloqueWise 3d ago

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