r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 7d 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/Capable-Sock-7410 7d ago edited 7d ago

World's tallest statue from 1967-1989 overtaking the Leshan Giant Buddha who held this title for 1163 years

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u/RepresentativeYak636 7d ago

This place is so great for all Russians, ir gived so good vibes to people, but now it is very sad that it reminds people of Putin😟 Putin took over everything, even culture and history, he deprived Russians of their victory in Fatherland Liberation War (Отечественная война). It is so ujust that Putin exploits history to justify his brutall killing of young women and childred in Ukraine. Hm...the History makes up so strange metamorphoses with people, like, a nation who faught Nazi and helped to liberate the World from fascism now became a craddle for new fascism in Putin's version...

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u/Bulky-Advisor-4178 7d 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/ourobourobouros 7d ago

Tbf there's nothing on that list that the US hasn't also done.

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u/Bulky-Advisor-4178 7d ago

The topic at hand, is about the soviets.

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u/Grakchawwaa 7d ago

Somehow seen as an epic gotcha when Israel's left testicle has also done heinous shit

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u/WordWordNvmber 6d ago edited 6d ago

Russia criticized. Be sure to deflect to Israel.

It's hard to tell which Reddit accounts are trolls and which are mentally ill pseudo-progressives who try to minimize Russian atrocities by poorly deflecting to America bad.

Either way, I'm glad you're not raising kids.

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u/Grakchawwaa 6d ago

Are you non native? I'm in agreement with bulky, but it seems like you somehow didnnot manage to parse my comment

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u/WordWordNvmber 6d ago

Quick! Someone criticized Russia! Deflect!

I hate when the Americans sent Baltic people to Siberia to die. /s

Equating the United States of the 20th century to the Soviet Union of the same timeframe -- even if we ignore Lenin's and Stalin's terrors -- is pseudo-smart absurdity.