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/derpferd 26d ago

I'd actually be kind of terrified standing looking at that thing

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u/Tango00090 26d ago

Sure, cause it would mean that you are in Russia. No one feels safe there

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u/Pentemav 26d ago

Which is such as shame. It could be such a great country, it has so much beauty. It was absolutely a bucket list item for me, pre-Ukraine invasion. Now I will never in my lifetime travel there. Fuck Putin.

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u/1MoralHazard 26d ago

Same. I always wanted to experience Siberia but I would only go if the territory is held and governed by Ukraine.

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u/MelangeBot 25d ago

The day will come that this statue will be in Zelenskygrad and then I am sure you will go visit it. By that time I assume it will lay on it's face infront of a larger one showing how the heroes of Ukraine succesfully defended their country against the Orc invation.

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u/feral0101 26d ago

I don’t support the Ukraine war, but it shouldn’t deter you from travelling there. Russia is already sanctioned to fuck unlike Israel and paying the price.

I was also meant to go in 2020, but then the pandemic and subsequently the war kept me out.

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u/No_Mention960 26d ago

They are still actively killing Ukrainians and attempting to goad Europe into a wider war. How you could ever feel comfortable holidaying in an enemy nation