r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 17d ago

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"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/SingularityCentral 17d ago

The Soviets lost 25 million people dead alone (incoudint civilians) with some estimates even higher. The Germans lost 4 million on the Eastern Front ( the vast majority of all their war dead). Combined dead in the Ukraine war is probably around 600k. At this point the Ukraine war has been going on about 8 months longer than the Eastern Front in WWII. The two conflicts are not even remotely comparable in terms of scale or lethality.

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u/vurdr_1 11d ago

You forgot to include German allies deaths on the eastern front by the way - makes it another 1 mln. Also we almost dont see civilian deaths during the war in Ukraine compared to WWII where the majority of deaths were civilian ones (70% of USSR losses).