Motherland Calls Volgograd: Stalingrad Tour!

Visit The Motherland Calls, the world’s largest female statue, on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd (Stalingrad), Russia! 🗽 This Soviet monument commemorates the Battle of Stalingrad, history’s bloodiest battle, built over mass graves of 34,500 soldiers. Experience the powerful Changing of the Guard up close and the flickering Eternal Flame in the Military Hall of Honor. A UNESCO World Heritage site, it’s unforgettable by day and by night. Feel Stalingrad’s history at Motherland Calls!Мамаев Курган, Волгоград.
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Timestamps:
0:15 Intro to Motherland Calls
1:16 Avenue of Poplars to Stand to the Death Statue
1:49 Ruined Walls
2:24 Square of Heroes
3:10 Hall of Military Glory
4:13 Changing of the Guard - Eternal Flame
9:12 Mamayev Kurgan & Statue Views
10:40 Day vs. Night Experience

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[marinaandrosova]

This statue is part of a group of four statues designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich and united by the same theme. The 1st one in Magnitogorsk, which was the heart of the Soviet industry during WWII, it is called “Rear to Front” and it shows the industry worker giving the Victory sward to the soldier. The idea is that the Victory sward was welded in the rear of the country and given by the workers to the Soviet army. The 2nd is “the Motherland Calls” in your video - the Victory sward is risen to defeat the enemy. The 3rd one is in Berlin in Treptov Park, there the Victory sward was lowered. Holding it is a Soviet soldier, and at his feet is a broken swastika. The 4th one is in New York in front of the UN headquarters, its name is “Let’s beat swards into plowshares” and it symbolised the Soviets’ offer for global peace. Which, as we know, the West rejected.

[michaelhieblaum]

For reference: for every square meter of land there are 15 dead soldiers

[orthodoxcapricorn]

Good for you, that you visited the land of your ancestors. People should never forget who they are and where do they came from.
Russia is great land, with extraordinary history and I would like to visit it some day. Best wishes for you.

[ИриССа]

This place demands presence in person him/herself. Just to feel the atmosphere.

[tatianachilinciuc]

Боже, какое величие и красота, Россия, бывший СССР, это страны где родились и выросли настоящие мужчины, защитники, страны и народа.

[romastep]

Моё Свидетельство о рождении, а я родился в 1961году в Волгоградской области, заверено печатью с надписью "Сталинградская область". Я этим горжусь!

[ElenaChibirjak]

Родилась ещё в Сталинграде, живу в Волгограде, как и вся моя семья. Люблю свой город и его историю! По-английски говорю достаточно хорошо. Поэтому с искренним уважением говорю спасибо за такой замечательный репортаж о моем родном городе! Thanks!!!

[zv]

Took my kids there one summer, travelled all the way from the North of Russia.Felt the pain seeping from under the ground with my every step.Couldn't film anything there, only weep.

[Elena.b]

Каждый шаг раздаётся, как выстрел. Никто не забыт, ничто не забыто. Дай Бог, чтоб наши потомки помнили всегда, как далась эта Победа. И чтоб они никогда не сомневались, что наши предки настоящие Герои и именно они подарили нам всем свободу и защитили свою Землю

[BillPurkayastha]

I wept helplessly when I visited this place.

[francescacarlucci]

Il senso della morte, della memoria, dell’eterna e invincibile grandezza russa.

[Generator-qk]

Мой отец там воевал. Ранение от авиа осколка в бедро. В детстве пол моей ладони входило в шрам...

[Nord-]

I live in Stalingrad, just 10 minutes from the Kurgan. At 0:56 you can see the street where I live, just 200 meters north, right next to the Volga.

Best regards
Mira

[OlgaZh-gl]

Никто не забыт. Ничто не забыто. С праздником Днём Великой Победы, 80 лет,

[gvalley]

That statue is impressive. The city looks so peaceful and beautiful with its blue sky and greenbelts. Hard to imagine it was once hell on earth. Thanks for posting.

[iso_Bandit]

I went to Austria in September this year. I met a Russian who owned a shop there with many soviet area pins. The one pin i bought from him was of this. It's absolutely my favorite i now own. ❤

[zhannaperepelyuk]

In my life I wasn’t lucky enough to visit Mamayev Kurgan, but thanks to you Peter, I had opportunity to watch and learned a lot from the video. Thank God for our fathers and grandfathers who fought for our life, freedom and peace. During my life, my grandfather told me a very interesting story that happened to him during the war. One winter day, together with his unit, my grandfather was building a pontoon bridge across the Oder River in Germany. Suddenly, German planes flew in and began bombing the crossing along with the soldiers who were in the middle of the frozen river. Everyone began to run in different directions, saving themselves from death. My grandfather also ran to the shore, but unexpectedly fell into an icy hole. As he was felling, he managed to hold on to the ice with both elbows, which helped him not to go under water. He tried with all his might to get out of the hole onto the ice, but he didn’t have enough strength because his legs started to freeze. His life and his large family, which he would never see again, flashed through his mind. In the last minutes of his life, he prayed to God with this prayer: “Lord! No one but only you will help me get out of this ice hole.” Before he could finish his prayer, he suddenly discovered that one of his legs was already on top of the ice. Little by little, he pulled out his other leg and reached the shore. God helped my grandfather to stay alive until the last day of the war and return to his family. All his life, my grandfather loved and served the Lord, and he passed of his faith in God to me.

[juanporzio]

Great film, I was there in 2012, thank you very much and saludos to Volgograd!

[bethanygrishaw]

The steps of all these soldiers sound like claps of thunder

[russellaycock]

Awe inspiring memorial and very interesting that Schumann’s “Traumerei” is played there. I would love to see this place in person.

The battle itself is unimaginable to me.