The Motherland Calls is the compositional centre of the monument-ensemble "Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. The statue is designed in the Soviet style of socialist realism. It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin, and declared the tallest statue in the world in 1967. At 85 m (279 ft), it is the tallest statue in Europe, the tallest in the eastern hemisphere outside of Asia and the tallest statue (excluding pedestals) of a woman in the world.
The work of sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and engineer Nikolai Nikitin is an 85-metre (279 ft) figure of a woman stepping forward with a raised sword. The statue is an allegorical image of the Motherland, which calls on its sons and daughters to repulse the enemy and return to the attack.
The Motherland Calls is highly complex from an engineering point of view, due to its characteristic posture with a sword raised high in the right hand and the left hand extended in a calling gesture. The sculpture is hollow. The technology behind the hollow statue is based on a combination of prestressed concrete with wire ropes, a solution which can also be found in another work of Nikitin's, the Ostankino Tower in Moscow. Inside, the entire statue consists of separate cells or chambers, like rooms in a building. The concrete walls of the sculpture are 25–30 cm (9.8–11.8 in) thick.
The construction of the monument was started in May 1959 and completed on 15 October 1967.[3] It was the tallest sculpture in the world at the time of creation. Restoration work on the main monument of the monument complex was done in 1972, when the sword was replaced by another entirely consisting of stainless steel.
It is most likely that Vuchetich sculpted the figure from the discus thrower Nina Dumbadze, and the face from his wife Vera. According to various sources, Valentina Izotova or Ekaterina Grebneva posed for the sculpture. It is also believed that the statue has parallels with the figure of the "Marseillaise" on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and that the statue's pose was inspired by the statue of Nike of Samothrace.
At night, the sculpture is illuminated by floodlights. It was specially illuminated as part of a light show titled "The Light of the Great Victory", marking the 72nd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.
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That crab story from earlier is such a worrying sign. We really don't have more than a good decade left, do we?
Holy hell I am an idiot that has been binging on coffee this week and decided to kill the last of a pot at 8PM tonight. My body is not used to this much caffiene, especially this late at night.
Guess I'll watch another horror flick and start playing Stray!
I got invited to a huge party where i know basically no one. I've got my drip ready, but as an autistic shut in with severe social anxiety, I'm low key freaking out.
Wish me luck, comrades. I'm going to try my best to break out of my shell tonight!
One time I went to a part where I didn't know anyone really, so I just started interviewing people.
If you don't know anyone then there's no consequence to embarrassing yourself, go wild
but as an autistic shut in with severe social anxiety
same. how did you get invited to a party?
I got randomly invited by a coworker who sidegigs as a DJ. Sitting on the train station rn. Never been more drunk, but god damn what an insane night. I've been dancing and drinking till I can barely stand. Definitely going to feel like absolute shit tomorrow.
Yay! social interaction! We autistic lads must occasionally grace the world with our magnificent presence so as to refresh our minds, it is our duty. A hard job, but it must be done.
Find the other autist with drip who's seated as far away from the music as possible, it me
you can do it! :meow-bounce:
very unlikely you'll be the only person there who doesn't know anyone so im sure you'll find someone to talk to
Hell yeah. I don't know what your options are but if riding your bike is an option I always find it's such a good way to put me in an active and positive mindset for being social, so it could be a tool in the toolbox if you want to minimize your chance of being nervous. Have fun!
Also consider arriving relatively early so you meet some people as they arrive before everybody is there, that's a good trick to know a non-zero number of people before things pop off.
just sit on the side, looking relaxed. Works everytime.
Static monetary fines as a penalty for crime is such a parody of justice
If you're poor breaking this law will ruin your life but if you're rich you can just go right ahead lol
I remember seeing a video about an Alaskan husky that was raised by cats so it would loaf on a single step on the staircase (despite being so big it took up the whole step) and generally act super cat like, it was incredibly cute
It's good to have a lazy dog comrade. Very active dogs can be cool but very exhausting to care for.
As macrofauna predators dogs spend like, what, 50-70% of their time asleep? If I remember correctly co-evolving with humans (who also have extremely weird sleep habits) has resulted in them being significantly more active than comparably sized mammal predators.
My twelve year old cousin got banned from watching Twitch because his parents walked in on him watching Amouranth lmao
ask reddit thread asking allos what they'd do if their partner was asexual 🥴
My boss and coworker were talking about how banning abortion is bad :sicko-yes: and they were saying they'd probably go after gay people next which would be bad :sicko-yes: and I pointed out how these ghouls always go after the weaker targets to get their foot in the door to remove more and more rights and they agreed it was important to defend all people's rights :sicko-yes: and then they said "It's like they're trying to turn us communist or something" :sicko-no:
I hate self-deprication, it's a major turn off. I try to compliment someone and they just say "no, I'm not that good" and they don't stop to think how that makes people who actually aren't any good like me feel!
Oh yeah. it's my third or fourth favorite kind of existential crisis.
all the time, I get angry at being angry for no reason lol
The new Overwatch character "Junker Queen" is historically inaccurate, Junkers were more of a mid-level nobility than an actual royalty, and she isn't even Prussian
I think I've fully descended into third worldism. USians cannot at this point be organized or led to a revolution. We are all lumpen peasants. Half of the people in the country have the majority of their wealth tied up in the land in the form of a mortgage on their house and the other half desires for the same. Our culture is paranoid, insecure, subservient, careless, and addicted - all products of the hellish society that we are dropped into. Most people are too numb to care and the rest are blinded by ideology. The internet is more than panopticon that not only spies on us, but presses our very existence into jelly that is owned and sold by the capitalist pigs. The few people who actually stand up in resistance are crushed by the leviathan and the masses that are blinded by their love of it.
The good news is that as the global periphery breaks the chains of imperialism, our conditions will worsen and we will be reproletarianized. That's also bad news for USians but eventually it will lead to revolution here.
Okay. Whatcha going to do in the meantime? Halloween is coming if you want to try pumpkin carving.
Pumpkin carving sounds fun but unfortunately I don't really have space for it in my apartment. Maybe the landlord would let me put one on the steps?
i'm too afraid of being tortured to death to organize a revolution
If you're in the US, it's not even about bravery or individual ideas, wants, or actions. The country as a whole is fundamentally incapable of being led towards a revolution in the present state of things because the people do not want to overcome the forces that bind and sedate them. The masses perceive the system as acceptable and if they even care enough to want change (most don't) they believe it must be done through the system. For a large section of USians, maybe even a majority of them, this might not even be backwards. The imperialist system might very well benefit them more than it hurts them.
We can't organize a revolution because the people will not follow us. It's like we're all in a prison and the guards are putting sedatives in the food. You and I can tell everyone else we should break out, but most of them are too clocked out to care and some of them are even happy that they've got a roof, a bed, and three square meals.
lib aunt: If the crimeans and the donbass want to be Russian, they should be forced to move to Russia
me: you are literally arguing for fucking ethnic cleansing
lib aunt: I'm not saying ethnic cleansing I'm just saying that Russians should move to Russia even if they've lived there since before Ukraine was created