Putin's posse: Russian president poses with women dressed in historic Red Army uniforms [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 2, 2018 | Sara Malm

[dfwgator]

Two great Documentary episodes about Stalingrad

The World at War - Stalingrad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swNHNEuBawU&list=PLBOXjuzxIKcoy72Ub5pqNfv-_lS821z6c&index=11

Battlefield - Stalingrad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoLoOquPCP8

[Bull Snipe]

have seen hundreds of photos of WWII Soviet soldiers in winter gear. None of them eve looked like that.

[Teacher317]

I'm going to give this one to Putin... those who defended Stalingrad were heroic...and set a standard.

From my readings on it, those defending Stalingrad weren't given much of a choice. Run at the German machine gun nests, or else be shot by your own officers. I can't give too much of a heroism score for that.

That being said, the horrible, tragic, mountainous waste of young men at Stalingrad did win WWII. America's efforts helped of course (industrial as much as military), but it was the 1.1 million Russians (including boys and old men) that sent a river of blood at the Nazis that slowed them enough for the Russian winter to come to the rescue of Stalin,Stalingrad, and the rest of the world.

But for Hitler turning south for the Ploesti Oil fields and delaying the push into Stalingrad, but for the insane strategy of charging Nazi tanks with boys with empty rifles, but for the particularly harsh winter that year... Russia would have fallen, and Germany likely would have finished the sweep of Europe. Hitler's increasing insanity didn't start harming their war effort until mid-1944, Stalingrad took place in late 1942.

[Jim Noble]

“they hate him because he is the Caucasian leader of a largely Caucasian nation”

+1

[GOPJ]

But for Hitler turning south for the Ploesti Oil fields and delaying the push into Stalingrad, but for the insane strategy of charging Nazi tanks with boys with empty rifles, but for the particularly harsh winter that year... Russia would have fallen, and Germany likely would have finished the sweep of Europe. Hitler's increasing insanity didn't start harming their war effort until mid-1944, Stalingrad took place in late 1942.

I'm thankful for every 'historical blessing' - no matter how strange or irrational that assisted with stopping Hitler from taking over the world... Thanks for your comments.

[SuperLuminal]

Hmmm..Maybe surrendering could be very interesting...and exhausting.

[facedown]

Lol, speak for yourself, Comrade.