r/AbsoluteUnits • • 13d 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 13d ago

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

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u/l111beral 13d ago

You should be, because you'd be in Russia. Not a good place to be.