Template:Did you know nominations/The Motherland Calls

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 10:14, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

The Motherland Calls

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... that The Motherland Calls was designed to be taller than the Statue of Liberty in order to show Soviet dominance over the United States?

Source: Palmer 2009, p. 394. "Eager to demonstrate the USSR's ability to surpass the achievements of its Cold War rival, he wanted the Soviet Union's largest statue to exceed the height of the American Statue of Liberty."

ALT1: ... that the design of The Motherland Calls was inspired by the Winged Victory of Samothrace, an ancient Greek sculpture? Source: Palmer 2009, p. 395. "The resulting figure was clearly based on the 'Nike of Samothrace' (220-219 b.c.) the world-famous statue of the Greek goddess of victory."
ALT2: ... that the company responsible for restoration on The Motherland Calls was later placed on a list of "unscrupulous suppliers"? Source: Translated from Russian: The company Glavzarubezhstroy, which carried out the controversial restoration of The Motherland Calls monument in Volgograd, has been added to the register of unscrupulous suppliers.
ALT3: ... that a woman was sentenced to 10 months of forced labor for "tickling" the breasts of The Motherland Calls? Source: A court in the southern Russian city of Volgograd sentenced a 23-year-old woman to 10 months of compulsory labor on April 5 after convicting her of "rehabilitating Nazism." The charge stemmed from a 2023 social media video... in the video, Alyona Agafonova, a tourist from the mid-Volga region city of Samara, documented her visit to Volgograd and at one point, using a trick of perspective, playfully "tickled" the breasts of the enormous statue...
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Improved to Good Article status by Joeyquism (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

joeyquism (talk) 18:29, 30 July 2024 (UTC).

Article was nominated within 7 days of passing GAR. Article is long enough, adequately sourced, and neutral. Only pings on Earwigs are for some long proper titles and attributed quotes. Nominator is QPQ exempt. Hooks are interesting, cited, and short enough for DYK; AGF on paywalled sourced. I personally think ALT0 is the most interesting. Morgan695 (talk) 04:50, 1 August 2024 (UTC)