Posted on 01/27/2009 9:11:17 AM PST by pobeda1945
At 9:20 on a misty morning the signal came. As the men moved out, they saw silhouetted the massive St. Isaac's Cathedral, the battered Admiralty, the grey ships on the Neva. On the broad, cold Nevski Prospect the passers-by guessed: the hour was near. Then all of Leningrad listened breathlessly to the music of battle. Like moles the Germans had burrowed deep into the alien earth; now thousands of tons of explosives dug them out.
Victory's Pattern. The Russians struck from two points at once. One column drove south from the city. Another pushed out from the tiny beachhead at Oranienbaum, 25 miles from Leningrad. Before both columns a broom of TNT swept a clear path. By the fourth day, the enemy's defenses had been breached, his men put to flight. Then the two wedges became iron jaws, crushing the thin German salient still left between them.
By the eighth day, Red units had taken a railroad to Moscow, were headed for the second. In the Pulkovo Hills and south Oranienbaum, the Germans fought their hardest: their trenches were deep, mine fields vast, artillery plentiful.
Now little was left of these defenses, and the snowy road across the hills was blotched with dark, ragged craters.
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Thank you. Please post in English whenever possible. (It makes the job easier).
20-100 millions...great difference...
20 mil is already a brainwash...100 mil is a HALF of a country.It’s simply stupid.
According to wikipedia, allied losses in WW2 are MORE than 50 millions. I don’t take Pacific and African theatres, cause the most powerful country of Axis was Germany.
The greatert battle of WW2 is the battle of Stalingrad, where 750.000 of nazi soldiers were killed(wounded) in 3 month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
on the other side (information from wiki):
According to the declassified Soviet archives, during 1937 and 1938, the NKVD detained 1,548,367 victims, of whom 681,692 were shot - an average of 1,000 executions a day.[28]
So, how do you think?
Is Stalin really so massmurderer as Hitler?
Should we compare both with Hiroshima and Nagasaki??
In the difference in numbers, I was including what the range was, from differing sources. That’s just what others have come up with, depending on who you talk to...
And so, do I think Stalin was worse or Hitler was worse? I think Stalin was worse... But, Hitler has the distinction of the 6 million figure for Jews, which is significant from the standpoint of Israel and Bible Prophecy. So, it all depends on your perspective.
It’s like saying that we’re not in a Great Depression as long as you continue working through it and have money, versus the ones who are unemployed and lose everything.
Depending on who did “what” to “whom” — either Stalin is going to be worse, or Hitler is going to be worse. And in your case, you’ve got the issue of family being involved with Hitler. So, that makes it worse for you (which is to be expected)...
So, I can easily say that they are both mass-murderers and they both should have killed off each other...
No Problem. I just wanted to test, if I can post here something in Cyrillic.
bstrgrds :)))
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