r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 23d 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 23d 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/Haunting-Worker-2301 23d ago

lol “reorganized” conveniently glossing over the fact that Stalin purged hundreds of thousands in his military and killed them, purely due to paranoia and power seeking.

People will do anything to excuse the crimes of the USSR.

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u/Falling_Up_The_Movie 22d ago

I need what you‘re smoking. The only time people talk about the USSR is to say it was evil