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25-04-2008, 12:18 AM

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Za Rodinu

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Originally Posted by Korps Steiner

A few facts and figures " Motherland " is 52 metres high and 5,500 tons of concrete and 2,400 tons of metal were used to build it, it was designed by scultor Yevgeni Vuchetich and took 8 years to build 1959 -1967.

Steiner, that first photo you show is actually Marshal V.I.Chuikov's tomb, the only MSU awarded the honour to be buried elsewhere than the Kremlin's Wall, at the place of his victory.

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