But its inspiration is a very real chunk of Stalinist brutalism: the 300-foot-tall Motherland Calls, which stands above the Volga River and pays shrieking tribute to the dead of Stalingrad. Call of the Motherland, the statue past which I am whizzing at speed, is constructed from nothing but code. This tableau is unfolding early in a controversial new video game, Atomic Heart. “We are now flying over the majestic Call of the Motherland monument – erected in 1949 to mark the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II,” says a soothing female voice. A statue looms through the clouds: a huge vengeful woman with a sword high in one hand, a giant atom cradled in the other.
Monorails twinkle, suspension bridges shimmer, drones whirr like dystopian worker bees.
I’m on top of the world looking down on a pixillated workers’s paradise.
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