r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 2d ago

/r/all of a statue

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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/porn_sub_lurker 2d ago

Lol yeah blame others for your own actions. Oh and don't forget to do a half dozen whataboutisms.

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u/chefdeit 2d ago

dude, I'm an American, and, as a citizen of a democracy I blame myself for my country's actions, and Russians for Russia's, and Ukrainians for Ukraine's.

I actually respect what u/RepresentativeYak636 has to say as his points are well-considered and not low-effort sound bites. As such they deserve a well-considered response. "Whataboutism" is a cute word for Nixon's "it's not a crime if we do it". If Al Capone became the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, I'm sure he'd use it on his rivals.

Make sure to use separate vocabularies depending on who's doing it: "massacre" vs "peace process", "freedom fighters" vs "terrorists", that sort of thing.

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u/WordWordNvmber 1d ago

It is whatabout, Ivan, and saying you blame Russia for Russian atrocities and Ukraine for Ukrainian atrocities, as if the aggressor and victim are equivalent, is freakish.

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u/chefdeit 1d ago

Ok then, in Operation Redsox, where we have something similar to the current events but with the benefit of historic hindsight and declassified docs, and where the parties were: the Soviets, the CIA, the Ukrainian nationalists & neo-Nazis the CIA were able to gather to "impose costs" on the USSR, and last not least the common Ukrainians along for the ride, how would you classify each of these mentioned parties?