Kalach? Stalingrad.

Stalingrad became Volgograd.

Our Debt to Stalingrad

The operation formed part of the ongoing Battle of Stalingrad, and was aimed at destroying German forces in and around Stalingrad.

Fewer than 5,000 of the prisoners taken at Stalingrad survived captivity.

The Resistance in Stalingrad has bled our fuel and ammunition in unexpected quantities.

Mindful of Ypres, Warsaw, or Stalingrad, not to mention Auschwitz and Treblinka, many regard this as a good thing.

Seventy years ago, 200,000 Soviet soldiers overwhelmingly male and predominantly Russian crossed the Volga River to the city of Stalingrad.

Career During World War II, he was a medical officer, serving in the Axis occupation of Croatia his younger brother died at Stalingrad.

The Germans used it as a staging area for their attack on Stalingrad, and made it a key crossing point on the Don River.

If you roll it forward 20th century security into the Second World War, you see the Battle of Stalingrad, 300 days, 2 million people killed.

In early 1943, the German troops begun to retreat from the Soviet Union after their defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad, which is considered a turning point in the war.

A little more than a year later and contrasting sharply with the success at Uman, was the near total devastation of the Hungarian Second Army on banks of the Don River in December 1942 during the Battle for Stalingrad.

Grozny was totally destroyed during the first Chechen war both Russian and foreign observers compared it with WWII Stalingrad and assumed that it would be impossible to restore the city. It was suggested that a new Chechen capital be built.

Together, these 1.2 million Red Army soldiers, the workers who armed them, and the peasants who fed them turned the Battle of Stalingrad into the fight that, of any battle in human history, has made the greatest positive difference for humanity.

The Allies probably would have eventually won World War II even had the Nazis conquered Stalingrad, redistributed their spearhead forces as mobile reserves, repelled the Red Army s subsequent winter 1942 offensive, and seized the Caucasus oil fields, thus depriving the Red Army of 90 of its motor fuel.

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