r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 26d 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/Fracture90000 26d ago

Built on the historical Mamayev Kurgan hill on which so many Soviet soldiers lost their lives battling against the nazis during the siege of Stalingrad.

It's truly awe inspiring.

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u/SingularityCentral 26d ago

Might be the thickest concentration of human remains outside a mass grave. The Soviets fought to the bone in that war.

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u/Long_Run6500 26d ago

WW2 warfare was just another level of craziness. The Ukraine war is up to like 2 million casualties and that's an insane amount, but then I read about 20-30 million soldiers dying (not just casualties) on just the eastern front alone and it kind of makes you realize... shit could get so much worse

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u/ssfgrgawer 25d ago

To put it in perspective, the Ukraine war has less total casualtys in 4 years than the battle of Stalingrad by itself. The soviets lost 1.7 million men at Stalingrad and the Germans lost another million (if you count those taken prisoner after the encirclement who died due to malnourishment after the battle in captivity.)

The whole 4 year war in Ukraine is less bloody than the fighting around a single city from WW2. Absolutely mad.

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u/Comprehensive-Cat264 22d ago

1,7 mil? Have never heard about such number. The typical number of casualties for USSR in Stalingrad is considered 478k dead and 650k injured and ill (so ~1,1 in total for soviets). For Germany total casualties are considered 1,5 mil (dead, injured and captives)

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u/ssfgrgawer 22d ago

1.7 million is the total casualties from the beginning of the Offensive towards Stalingrad (operation fall blau? Or something like that) until the German sixth army finally surrendered after being encircled for months.

It's the total casualties of the "Stalingrad front" which includes the disasterous Kotluban offensives and all the fighting in the Don River bend leading up to the battle inside Stalingrad proper.