Over 1 million Red Army soldiers gave their lives for you to rid the world of nazism in 1942/3. Never, ever forget their sacrifice.
I really love that statue. So much soviet art out there.
As an artist I run in abstraction and stuff, but I really would love a decent style guide to how the soviets made their art - especially their more stylistic propaganda. If anybody knows, maybe i can use my last canvas (i'm a broke girl) to make something honoring the hard carry of ww2 against fascism, so reply @ me with your best soviet style guides since this post is adjacent to soviet art!!!!!
It's called Socialist Realism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism I don't think there are many published materials in English
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
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,
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raised in The Motherland Calls in Volgograd (then Stalingrad)
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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.
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Oh dang what the Greeks were going to rebuild Colossus of Rhodes before the economic crisis
20 million people (mainly civilians), not just soldiers, died in the fascist invasion of the USSR. It was a genocide. We're not taught this in the West.
I think the “over 1 million” here by OP is referring just to the battle of Stalingrad alone.
Ukraine has a similar one that they’ve vandalized in the name of decommunization.
I think you mean nazification. Don't worry, the nazis there are being purged now.
I know you're joking but in case folks don't know, it's a Soviet grenade
