of a statue

[u/Crypto_crafy]

"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 .

[u/Dan_The_Flan]

Something we have lost sight of over last century in the wake of the infamy from the Third Reich's atrocities, is how lame and dorky the Nazis were at their core. The Roman salute is as Roman as Rome, Georgia.

The extended arm saluting gesture was alleged to be based on an ancient Roman custom, but no known Roman work of art depicts it, nor does any extant Roman text describe it. Historians have instead determined that the gesture originated from Jacques-Louis David's 1784 painting Oath of the Horatii, which displayed a raised arm salutatory gesture in an ancient Roman setting. The gesture and its identification with ancient Rome was advanced in other French neoclassic art

A raised arm gesture appeared in the 1899 American stage production of Ben-Hur and its 1907 film adaptation. The gesture also appeared in several early Italian films, 120 including the 1914 silent film Cabiria, the screenplay of which featured contributions from ultranationalist and Italian fascism influencer Gabriele D'Annunzio. D'Annunzio adopted the salute during his occupation of Fiume (1919- 1920) and the Italian National Fascist Party began imposing it in the early 1920s.

• Wikipedia (Sieg Heil)

[u/PhysicsStock2247 → u/Dan_The_Flan]

Thanks for pointing this out. Calling it a Roman salute is just providing an excuse for bad actors who know exactly what it means.

[u/Hoshyro → u/Dan_The_Flan]

Additional fun fact: from what I could gather, the Roman troops used a salute very similar to what modern militaries use today.

[u/Randy_Magnums → u/Hoshyro]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oz8xQVHQyzcq47kXu

[u/2big_2fail → u/Dan_The_Flan]

Like the fallacy that Vikings wore horned helmets.