Mother Motherland

Mother Motherland

Mother Motherland (Russian: Родина-мать, Rodina-mat’), more correctly translated as Mother Homeland, a poetic appellation to Motherland, is the name of several monuments in various cities of the former Soviet Union. In the Soviet period, this term was used in preference to "Mother Russia". Motherland is a symbol made during World War II to mobilize the Soviet people however she was only enshrined in propaganda posters during the war. Most of statues of Motherland in big cities and small towns were made after the World War II:

  • The Motherland Calls (Russian: Родина мать зовёт, Rodina Mat' Zovyot!) a statue in Volgograd, Russia, commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad
  • Mother Motherland (Kiev), a statue at the World War II memorial, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Mother Motherland (Saint Petersburg), a statue at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Mother Russia a monument in Kaliningrad, Russia
  • Mother Motherland Mourning over Her Perished Sons (Russian: Родина-мать, скорбящая о погибших сыновьях), Minsk, Belarus commemorating the dead in Afghanistan
  • Mother Motherland (Naberezhnye Chelny), a monument in Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia[1]
  • Mother Motherland (Pavlovsk), a memorial complex, Pavlovsk, Russia[2]

References

  1. ^ Казань. Храм на шести сотках — Ольга Юхновская."Не йог, не маг и не святой" — Российская Газета — Этот объект не включен в программу подготовки к казанскому миллениуму. Но его, без сомнений, будут показывать гостям города как редкую достопримечательность. Создатель множества памятников, художник из пригорода Казани Ильдар Ханов к тысячелетию столицы Татарстана строит на своем участке храм всех религий. В свое время творчество Ханова высоко оценил Святослав Рерих
  2. ^ http://pavlovsk.by.ru/pav.html

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