Lack of progress

A bit depressing to find that, just over a hundred years after the Russian revolution, the Russians feel the need to assert their nationhood by evoking a battle - The Battle of the Ice - which took place getting on for 800 years ago, evoking by means of a rather florid sculpture set on the banks of the lake which provided the ice in question.

With high priests from the Russian Orthodox Church very much in attendance at the opening ceremony. 

With a couple of related posts to be found at references 3 and 4.

Old Bolsheviks must be turning, not for the first time, in their graves. 

I think even the people who voted our fat leader in would think it a bit gross to erect and stonking great sculpture on the cliffs of Dover depicting Wellington grinding Napoleon into the dust at the Battle of Waterloo. Even if we remembered to leave Blücher and his contingent out. And having one for the Battle of Hastings would just seem ridiculous. Might even seem a bit out of place in a Disneyland.

References

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_on_the_Ice.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_(film). Film buffs will know all about all this from the very famous film from Eisenstein.

Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/04/commemorative-cathedral.html.

Reference 4: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/03/cups-and-crosses.html.

Reference 5: the text that comes with the snap above: Prince Alexander Nevsky memorial opens in Pskov Region, Russia. PSKOV REGION, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 11, 2021: A ceremony to open the Prince Alexander Nevsky and His Guard memorial site takes place in the village of Samolva, Gdovsky District, on the shore of Lake Peipsi (Chudskoye), at the supposed location of the 1242 Battle on the Ice, to mark Nevsky's 800th birthday. Standing 20m tall and weighing 50t, the monument consists of equestrian figures of the prince, his brother, battle commander and six warriors, with a mosaic panel in the back depicting scenes from the Battle on the Ice. Alexander Demianchuk/TASS (Photo by Alexander Demianchuk\TASS via Getty Images).