The Motherland Calls
An 85-metre sword-bearing figure over Stalingrad, the world's tallest statue when unveiled
- Author
- Yevgeny Vuchetich, Nikolai Nikitin
- Style
- Socialist realism — Life not as it is but as it should become under socialism — legible and heroic
- Century
- 20th century
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