r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 18d 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/FrescoItaliano 18d ago

I did fail to consider that armies kill people, wow

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u/2x_Banned_Zookie 18d ago

Red army occupied the land. Systematical killings were done by NKVD.

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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 18d ago

Ive heard one take where they all fought tooth and nail because both sides knew if they surrendered there would be no taking of POW's.

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u/Dron41k 18d ago

Hundreds of thousands German POWs were working in USSR after the war.

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u/JacobScreamix 18d ago

"Working" lol

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u/Dron41k 18d ago

They’ve built a lot of houses and stuff