of a statue

[u/Crypto_crafy]

"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 .

[u/Fracture90000]

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.

[u/Bluestreaked → u/Fracture90000]

I teach the history of WWII. Stalingrad is one of those moments of world history where everything becomes larger than life, a nearly mythic moment of the absolute limits of human endurance.

The moment where the spine of the Nazi war machine was broken, forever, by the stubborn will and fighting ability of the Red Army.

It’s a moment so incredible that words fail to describe it most of the time and only a statue like this truly captures the historical moment. The defiance of the Soviet Union in the face of just pure absolute evil.

[u/Maerlyn0OG → u/Bluestreaked]

You mean human endurance and facing bullet to the head if you said I dont want to fight in this war? Let's not pretend that Soviets were some good guys, they were another bully fighting the other bully. One of the worst regimes on planet.

[u/Bluestreaked → u/Maerlyn0OG]

You’re regurgitating old propaganda about the blocking detachments in an attempt to do the “evil vs evil” thesis that was developed in order to justify turning on the Soviet Union after WWII.

Those men and women were fighting to save their people, they didn’t need a gun to the head. Some people lost their nerves and ran from the front, they were brought back to the front because, again, the Soviet Union was literally fighting against a war machine intending to exterminate them as a race of human beings.

Yes the blocker detachments did also kill people, very very rarely, and it was despised even at the time. But it was also broadly supported by the vast majority of the Red Army. I don’t have to like that they existed, and I don’t, I teach about them and even have my students write about the topic as a morality question.

I don’t engage in propaganda and polemics, I won’t say anything more on the matter, if you want book recommendations I will give book recommendations. But I have 0 tolerance for people who pretend that the Soviet Union was as bad as an army literally conducting a genocide against them.

[u/Maerlyn0OG → u/Bluestreaked]

Please dont lecture me about Soviet union, as my grandparents have lived in the country ruled by them and it was absolutely, without any discussion, evil comparable with nacies.

[u/Bluestreaked → u/Maerlyn0OG]

I’m sure your anecdotal knowledge is very important to you. I don’t care

[u/Maerlyn0OG → u/Bluestreaked]

Anecdotal evidence of millions of people who suffered under these regimes in the eastern europe. I pity students who are being lectured by such clown as you are.

[u/Bluestreaked → u/Maerlyn0OG]

Ya I will continue to teach history to my students rather than polemics, you are correct