Not having seen it, I'll defer to your understanding. One word though. When you remember who was fighting at Stalingrad you have to wonder if being cast as a defender of the Grain Elevator was such a positive thing. Before Pearl Harbor there was much feeling in the US that it would be in our interest to sellbullets to both sides in the Russo German War. Knowing what they both stood for I can appreciate that feeling. A Soviet victory at Stalingrad was to be celebrated only as it made the jobs of GIs and Tommies easier. The Soviets were evry bit as evil as the nazis. That's something I know Matthews does not believe.
Correcto! Soviets evil too however the Nazis definately the aggressors .. they had attacked Russia without warning. And the defenders of Stalingard didn't care about each other's politics,,they were fighting for their homeland. We didn't care about their politics either we sympathized for their suffering and glad they took divisions away from the western front. Many a GI was saved by the demise of the Wermach's 6th army.