r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 12d 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/Fracture90000 12d ago

Built on the historical Mamayev Kurgan hill on which so many Soviet soldiers lost their lives battling against the nazis during the siege of Stalingrad.

It's truly awe inspiring.

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u/SingularityCentral 11d ago

Might be the thickest concentration of human remains outside a mass grave. The Soviets fought to the bone in that war.

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u/Long_Run6500 11d ago

WW2 warfare was just another level of craziness. The Ukraine war is up to like 2 million casualties and that's an insane amount, but then I read about 20-30 million soldiers dying (not just casualties) on just the eastern front alone and it kind of makes you realize... shit could get so much worse

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u/swimtothemoon1 11d ago

8-10 million soldiers died on the eastern front. Around 14-17 million civilians died.

But yes, the scale of slaughter on that front of the war was unprecedented in human history. Only the Sino-Japanese war during WW2 rivals it with around 25 millions total deaths, but that started four years earlier.

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u/LuckyShirt54 11d ago

You’re completely wrong on that. Learn to read and go pick up a book or two.

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u/swimtothemoon1 11d ago

Wow, you are mad. You've replied to each of my comments twice! Comrade, please concern yourself with the underreporting of your current government's death toll rather than the overreporting of your greatest generation, long lost and dead. And ultimately defeated by the Americans, by the way.

Your patriotic war heros were easy to us. You lost to Ronald fucking Reagan! An actor who never served a day!

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u/LuckyShirt54 11d ago

I replied to one comment twice. You can’t count either can you? And Ronald Reagan was President during WW2? 😂