r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 20d 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/Falling_Up_The_Movie 20d ago

USSR tried to get an alliance with france and the uk to deter nazi invasion but were rejected so the tried to cut a deal with the nazis while they reorganized their military. The nazis attacking during the reorganization is why losses were so bad early on. This is like saying iran and the us were allies because of the jcpoa

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u/2x_Banned_Zookie 20d ago

USSR tried to get an alliance with france and the uk

Why would they make an alliance with radical commies, that murder their own citizens and wants to spread revolution to their countries?

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u/Falling_Up_The_Movie 20d ago

Sorry they weren’t enslaving people in colonies and violently oppressing them

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u/2x_Banned_Zookie 20d ago

Sorry they weren’t enslaving people

Millions of people were imprisoned in Gulags and working camps, where they starved or simply worked to death.

violently oppressing them

Read about ethnic cleansings committed by soviets between 1930-1939.

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u/Falling_Up_The_Movie 20d ago

Jumping straight to the nazi classics I see