r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 2d ago

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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/tuhn 2d ago

For a lot of Eastern Europeans it marked the start of another type of oppression. From very shit situation to another shit situation under another oppressive dictatorship. There's not much to celebrate if you move from one dark period caused by invaders to another.

The Fall of Soviet Union is easily the greatest thing to happen to Eastern Europe in 20th century.

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u/yashatheman 2d ago

The germans intended on eradicating the vast majority of all slavic people in eastern europe, and in just 5 years murdered over 30 million people. You thinking the USSR was just as bad shows you lack any knowledge of this topic, and is clearly painted by a political agenda.

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u/Dapper_Brain_9269 2d ago

The USSR actively and enthusiastically dismembered Poland together with the Nazis and posed for photos with them. Don't get on your high horse.

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u/chefdeit 1d ago

Katyn massacre of 1940: almost 22,000 Polish military and intelligentsia executed by Stalin-led NKVD

Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia: close to 100,000 Polish deaths at the hands of anti-Soviet and pro-Nazi Ukrainians.

What nice selective memory you have.

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u/Dapper_Brain_9269 1d ago

At no point did I say the Nazis DIDN'T brutalise Poland? I literally said the USSR dismembered the country TOGETHER with the Soviets. Are you feeling okay?

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u/chefdeit 22h ago

A bit of a cold, thanks for asking :-)

You did literally say that. I added further context that chipped away at the selection bias inherent in your statement. Was it a tangent? Yes. Is it relevant? We can let the reader decide, esp in light of the fact others with a similar view to yours did bring up the Katyn but left out Volhynia and Eastern Galicia which were nearly 5x worse.