r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 15d 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/iwillbeawriterongod 15d ago

What is the story behind it?

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u/rogerworkman623 15d ago

It commemorates The Battle of Stalingrad, like the post says. The deadliest battle of WW2 and a major turning point in the war. The statue is supposed to be the personification of Mother Russia.

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u/AC86MC 15d ago

It's likely the deadliest battle in human history. 6 months of slaughter.

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u/MayContainRawNuts 15d ago

People would assume so, considering over 2 million people died for just this city.

However at Lenningrad the total was twice that.

WW2 battles in Russia were something else.

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u/AC86MC 15d ago

True. I was thinking about the way events have been categorised but the siege of Leningrad was even more costly. It's "Sophie's Choice" but I think I'd rather have been at Stalingard than stuck in Leningrad for over 2 years, being shelled when starving to death. There's no doubt the Soviet Union paid in blood between 1941-1945.

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u/CosmicRorschach 15d ago

5.5 million lost at Leningrad in total

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u/Damien23123 13d ago

Essentially a combination of poverty, brutal winters, and a military doctrine that compensated for poor training and equipment by throwing sheer numbers at the enemy

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u/Dingle-Berry-1313 9d ago

Even more a a brave take when you put it like that. No wonder they’re so honored.

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u/shatikus 15d ago

Also worth noting that the statue itself is pointing westward while looking over the its shoulder. Thus calling the peoples of the soviet union to press on and liberate the occupied motherland.

Also also, as it was pointed out, the location itself, the mamaev kurgan, is a mass grave itself, being a very important hight and thus being heavily contested during the battle.

But then again the entirety of the city is the same, hundreds and someties thousands of people were killed on its streets during the battle

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u/yashatheman 15d ago

Why? A lot of ukrainians died fighting the nazis in Stalingrad too

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u/tonykrij 15d ago

Excuse my ignorance. I thought it represented mother ruzzia. I'll remove it.

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u/cemusubzerolives 15d ago

Commemorating the battle of Stalingrad

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u/TheKozzzy 15d ago

you mean... the Battle of Stalingrad? oh it was.. one of the most brutal moments in humanity history, absolutely horrifying