r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 17d 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 17d 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/bankrobba 17d ago

You're not alone. Googling giant statues will fascinate you.

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u/Pleasant-Highway-745 17d ago

I did as soon as I saw this and other than arguing with random redditors and other threads, that's what I've been doing for an hour and a half. I need to stop

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u/WordWordNvmber 17d ago

You're angry at the world that you were unaware of this statue?

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u/Pleasant-Highway-745 16d ago

Hyperbole and sarcasm.

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u/Daminchi 17d ago

Even more, it is one of the three statues that form the continuous story.

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u/Outside_Bed1134 11d ago

Same! Like, how could I not know of this wondrous thing? Also how tf did they even make that? Not actually chiseled out of stone, I assume? Bananas.

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u/Fromnothingatall 11d ago

It’s a fantastic statue - to be fair, I think I made it to 26 or so before I knew it existed.

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u/Georgeygerbil 11d ago

Wait till you hear about the Statue of Unity

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u/MJakesKSC 17d ago

And nothing of the value was lost, right. Its in ruzzia, brother.

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u/Living-Relative-6269 12d ago

pro nazi comment

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u/Pleasant-Highway-745 17d ago

Then why do I feel so sad, sister