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  • MF_COOM [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Damn that’s so fucking cool.

    I’ve never seen this before but started looking into tallest statutes and like gd almost all of them are just different Buddhas this is so much cooler

    • wheresmysurplusvalue [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      11·
      5 months ago

      This one is definitely the coolest one in my opinion. I’d love to visit Volgograd some day to see it. This statue is part of a 3-part series depicting different stages of the Great Patriotic War (WW2).

      The monument is composed of a worker and a warrior. The worker is oriented to the east, towards the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The warrior is facing the west, to the side of the “Great Patriotic War”.

      The three monuments are made to symbolize the sword being forged in Magnitogorsk,

      raised in The Motherland Calls in Volgograd (then Stalingrad)

      and finally dropped to the ground after the victory in Berlin as a part of Warrior Liberator. The composition also includes a stone flower made from Karelian granite with an eternal flame.