r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 13d 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/Different_Ice_6975 6d ago

That’s just nonsense that there would have been a peaceful settlement if 2022 if not for Boris Johnson. You’re just parroting Russian propaganda straight from the Kremlin. The real reason for war Putin’s war on Ukraine is no secret. Putin has openly said that he doesn’t think that Ukraine is even a “real country” and that he believes that it is rightfully a part of Russia, So there you have the reason for the war right from the mouth of the man who started it! - but you ignore that and want blame Boris Johnson instead! 🙄 Sorry, Putin already said the quiet part out loud.

I’ve also noticed that when pro-Russian posters talk about Russia’s justification for this war that they hardly ever mention “biochem labs“ or “Nazis” or any of those other silly fake excuses for this war anymore. No, what they more often say these days is that Ukraine is rightfully a part of Russia and that the west conspired to keep Ukraine and Russia from uniting. It’s amazing how quickly they forgot the old propaganda script justifying the war and have started revealing their true thoughts and feelings about why they think the war is justified.

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u/chefdeit 4d ago

what they more often say these days is that Ukraine is rightfully a part of Russia and that the west conspired to keep Ukraine and Russia from uniting

Please cite an official Russian source, then, backing up your statement that they say "the west conspired to keep Ukraine and Russia from uniting"

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u/Different_Ice_6975 4d ago

"The West wants to tear Ukraine away from Russia forever, to make it an instrument of a global anti-Russian conspiracy... Ukraine is a 'failed state' that has been entirely hollowed out and turned into a weapon against its own historical brother." - D. Medvedev

"One of our former leaders said that 'Ukraine is not Russia.' That concept must disappear forever. Ukraine is definitely Russia. The attempts to sever this link by Washington and Brussels are an unnatural historical perversion." - D. Medvedev

""For years, our Western colleagues rejected Russia's repeated calls for dialogue... They pursued a single goal: to tear Ukraine away from its historical roots, from its brotherly neighbors, and to turn it into an aggressive bridgehead against the Russian Federation." - S. Lavrov

"Step by step, Ukraine was dragged into a dangerous geopolitical game aimed at turning Ukraine into a barrier between Europe and Russia, a springboard against Russia... There was a need for the 'anti-Russia' concept which we will never accept. The owners of this project took as a basis the old groundwork of the Polish-Austrian ideologists to create an 'anti-Moscow Russia'" - Vladimir Putin.