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Battle for Stalingrad: 70 years After
English Russia ^ | 11-21-12 | CJ

Posted on 11/27/2012 4:46:09 PM PST by dynachrome

19th of November, 1942. 7:30 a.m.

The air over Stalingrad started shaking. Volleys of thousands of artillery shells marked the beginning of the “Uranus” operation – a counter-offensive one, which became a radical turn in the Second World War.

Seventy years have passed and last Sunday there was held a reconstruction in Volgograd devoted to that battle.

(Excerpt) Read more at englishrussia.com ...


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KEYWORDS: mausers; mosins; stalingrad; ww2
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To: yarddog

He was called Von Paulus during the war. What do you not get ?


21 posted on 01/07/2013 5:02:01 PM PST by surchris (Once communist born, now a Liberal irritant.)
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To: surchris

No he wasn’t.

His name was simply Paulus. It is not that hard to look it up.


22 posted on 01/07/2013 5:32:46 PM PST by yarddog (One shot one miss.)
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