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Title: Business Insider Apologizes for Labeling Russia WWII Memorial 'Absurd'
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Sputnik International
URL Source: http://sputniknews.com/world/20150430/1021566615.html
Published: Apr 30, 2015
Author: Sputnik
Post Date: 2015-04-30 10:13:22 by A Pole
Keywords: Russia, War, Stalingrad
Views: 4477
Comments: 9
In a comment to Sputnik Business Insider apologized for including Russia's WWII monument The Motherland Calls in a list of the "most absurd Soviet-era buildings that are still standing." [...] Business Insider UK founding editor Jim Edwards remarked to Sputnik on Thursday that the slide depicting The Motherland Calls "was changed after we included it by mistake." It has since been deleted from their list after being featured for what they describe as "a brief period." [...] The article was edited after receiving many angry comments from readers for ridiculing a statue that memorialized a particularly bloody page in the history of the Soviet Union's fight against Nazism. [...] The 87-meter (285-foot) Motherland monument is located in Mamayev Kurgan in Russia's Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad. It was built to commemorate the Battle of Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in human history. The list was made on the eve of the Victory Day, which is celebrated on May 9. [...] ================= Soviet soldiers fight through Stalingrad (1943): German Prisoners At Stalingrad: The monument - Motherland Calls: 
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestActually the statue is known as Mother Russia. The round building contains their tomb of the unknown soldier.
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