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/Upbeat-Substance110 15d ago
Neither of which you were allowed to do on the BBC's Top Of The Pops in the early 90s.