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Stalingrad

/ ˈstɑːlɪnˌɡræd; stəlinˈɡrat /

noun

  1. the former name (1925–61) of Volgograd


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The Third Reich met its nemesis as much here as it had—albeit in far greater numbers—at Stalingrad.

Stalingrad, of course, was the epic battle of World War II which the Soviets finally won.

It would be unfunny, for different reasons, if set at Verdun or Gettysburg or Stalingrad.

His Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945 are filled with vivid details.

Tobolsk doesn't appear on any of the maps, but it is a tiny village situated about eighty miles west of Stalingrad on the Volga.

When the German troops reached Stalingrad they picked you up and other Russian people?

Let me see, in 1943, in time war; Germans come and taken over Stalingrad and pick me up and send to Germany.

And, you actually went to Siberia before you came to Stalingrad?

Was your wife's mother living in Stalingrad when she died, do you know?

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StalinabadStalingrad, Battle of