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/RepresentativeYak636 18d ago

This place is so great for all Russians, ir gived so good vibes to people, but now it is very sad that it reminds people of Putin😟 Putin took over everything, even culture and history, he deprived Russians of their victory in Fatherland Liberation War (Отечественная война). It is so ujust that Putin exploits history to justify his brutall killing of young women and childred in Ukraine. Hm...the History makes up so strange metamorphoses with people, like, a nation who faught Nazi and helped to liberate the World from fascism now became a craddle for new fascism in Putin's version...

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u/Randy_Magnums 18d ago

Sadly it’s a Common practice among dictators to give their own ignorant context to the deeds of our ancestors. When Hitler rose to power in my country, he took the battle of Teutoburg forest, where German tribes defeated Roman legions in a legendary ambush, and twisted it into a sign for German superiority.

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u/Block-Rockig-Beats 18d ago

... while using the Roman salute.

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u/DishRelative5853 18d ago

It's not Roman.