Long live the memory of General Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov and the Soviet 62nd Army.
This tribute should not be construed as an attempt to denigrate the roll of the US or any other Soviet ally during WW II. Far from it. But make no mistake, it was the Red Army that bled the Germans white. Russian losses were staggering. They lost more soldiers at Stalingrad than we lost during the entire war.
Marshal Chuikov is the only MSU not buried in the Kremlin. His wish was to repose near the men that had served him at Stalingrad. His grave is near Mamamayv Kurgan Memorial in Volgograd.
The 62nd was refitted and retitled 8th Guards Army in 1943.
Two years later some its soldiers would raise the Sickle and Hammer flag over the Reichstag in Berlin. After the war, 8th Guards stayed in German until 1990.