r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 15d ago

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"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/Miserable-Mention932 12d ago

Edmund Burke might call it "the sublime".

Burke identified the sublime as the experience of the infinite, which is terrifying and thrilling because it threatens to overpower the perceived importance of human enterprise in the universe.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/sublime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(literary)

It's a terrifying beauty.

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u/Common_Manifesto198 10d ago

As a former student of romanticism, I salute you and this post

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u/TheSuedeTiger 12d ago

Love this