[sparkscoffee] Stalingrad revived for several hours
- From: Sblumen123@xxxxxxx
- To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:43:44 -0500 (EST)
Hi gang
In today's (Feb 3) Miami Herald. The City of Volgograd name
changed back to Stalingrad to comemorate the 70th
anniversity of the epic battle that turned the tide of World
War II. Hitler had seen capturing Stalingrad as a prize that
would sap Soviet morale partly because of it's symbolic
name and help secure control of oil fields in the Caucasus.
For 200 days Germaqns and Russians fought hand to hand,
street by street and even room to room battling subzero cold,
snow and sometimes starvation. Russian historians say
40,000 people were killed on the day of fiercest bombing
and at the height of combat the average survival time of
Soviet soldiers sent into battle was 24 hours. The victory
in the 6 month battle which killed about 2 million people
has produced an outburst of patriotic ferver and for some
nostolgia for the Soviet era and dictator Joseph Stalin.
Admirers of Stalin posted his pictures on mini buses.
President Putin flew to Volgograd, laid a wreath and
met vetrans the youngest of which was 89, after a military
parade led by soldiers in WWII uniforms and a war time
t-34 tank. In my view America, Europe, Jews and the
world owes the Soviets as does the Russians owes us
for Normandy, etc and the limited amount of supplies
we sent via the dangerous trips to Murmansk.
Comrade Blumenthal
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