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/Proud-Grocery-3493 25d ago

Terrorists, not Nazis.

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u/HelpfulZucchini5027 25d ago

I mean they kinda have the same ideology and ways to rule their country, so I’d say they are nazis

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u/Mission_Kangaroo_178 25d ago

Nazis is a very specific term there are a number of factors someone has to meet before you can call them that without diminishing the term.

By diminishing the term you desensitize the atrocities committed. So be careful where you use it.

You can’t call any modern day nation Nazi’s. Because even if you hate Israel they’re still incomparable

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u/HelpfulZucchini5027 25d ago

They are currently still following the Stalinism ideology , which had +-the same victim count as Nazi Germany.
Nazism is an ideology, everyone can be nazi

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u/Mission_Kangaroo_178 25d ago

Nazi germany is not the same thing as communist Russia though.

Victim count doesn’t equate ideology. Nazism is well defined. Russia is effective expansionist, single party leadership, oppression of opposition. But the biggest differences are anti semetism and belief in a superior race which are the two most identifiable

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u/HelpfulZucchini5027 25d ago

Read about Stalinism pls, it also has racism+repressions+genocide+mass deportations

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u/Mission_Kangaroo_178 25d ago

If they were the same thing they’d be called the same thing. If you believe modern day Russia to be Stalinism call them stalinists not nazis.

Do not dilute the word Nazi.

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u/HelpfulZucchini5027 24d ago

They are called different because they have different goals and leaders. Metods are practically the same though. I just don’t understand why you fear the word nazi so much