Looks like typical Soviet-style sculpture. I can't help but notice the poses of the three leaders. Stalin looking ahead to the future while FDR and Churchill look to Stalin very deferentially for leadership.
Precisely. What a distortion. He should be depicted looking deferentially to FDR and Chrurchill.
True, with the backs to the wall at Stalingrad, Stalin did rally them to turn the tide. But were it not for the finance and arms from FDR and Churchill maintaining them as a viable fighting force up to this point in the war, they wouldn't have had the strength to turn the tide.
Truth is, General Winter had more to do with the turning back of the Germans at Stalingrad than any of the three on the statue.
That would be Moscow and Leningrad. There was no question of German defeat from the outset of Stalingrad, it was only a question at what cost to both sides. With the launching of Uranus, it took all of Meinstine's genius and pure luck and insane resolve to save the Army Group B from 6th Army's fate, since Stalin gambled and almost won a total encirclement and destruction of all southern (and thus almost all mechanized) German forces.
Further, by Stalingrad, the average Russian soldier was more heavily armed then the average German. The days of every third man with a rifle were 1941 and the very beginning of 1942. By mid 1942, Russian industry (which had spent 1941 in transit) was producing something like a million rifles a month. The Germans also prefereed the Russian PPD submachinguns since they were more rugged. The Germans also maintained several battalions of T-34/76s.