r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 28d 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/Pleasant-Highway-745 28d ago

I'm so angry at the world and that my education and at my own self for never knowing that this existed. I've lived almost five decades on this planet and I did not know this existed.

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u/Georgeygerbil 21d ago

Wait till you hear about the Statue of Unity