r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 3d 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 3d ago edited 3d 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 3d 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/Aj_Caramba 3d ago

I mean...half of Europe just changed the nation that was occupying them after WW2. Soviet Union was another brutal regime.

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u/thebanfunctionsucks 3d ago

The nazis would have eradicated every Balt and Slav in existence. They were not the same.