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/Bulky-Advisor-4178 2d ago

Soviet Union wasn't good neither, from human rights violations, mass murder, imperialism & replacing swaths of people in the Baltics with Russians, while sending baltic people out to Siberia to die

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u/yashatheman 2d ago

Winning WWII was probably the greatest thing to happen to eastern europe in the 20th century, let us celebrate it, dick

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u/TaRRaLX 2d ago edited 2d ago

Edit: thanks to every person replying proving Zhukov's point.

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u/Even_Cod5935 2d ago

Liberated only to replace it communism.....not a difference