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This maybe old news, but last year was the 60th anniversary of Stalingrad, a major turning point in the Great Patriotic War, and one of the bloodiest encounters in modern history.
The radio station Voice of Russia launched a large-scale commemorative project, featuring first-hand accounts from Konstantin Simonov and Marshal Rokossovsky, a brief chronicle of events and yes, a piece on Vassily Zaitsev...
The website's reads off like propraganda-factory spin, but the information is quite interesting, nonetheless.
Check it: http://www.vor.ru/English/Stalingrad/main.html
The prolonged barrage engulfed Zero-One in the glow of a thousand suns. But unlike their former masters with their delicate flesh, the machines had little to fear of the bombs' radiation and heat. Thus did Zero-One's troops advance outwards in every direction. And one after another, mankind surrendered its territories. So the leaders of men conceived of their most desperate strategy yet. A final solution: the destruction of the sky.
-- The 2nd Renaissance (Part2), Animatrix
Well, even if you are a misguided Trot you must still admire the Battle of Stalingrad. It was a military victory not only for the Soviet Union but also for the entire allied powers. If the Battle of Stalingrad would have been lost by the Red Army and the liberated working class of the USSR, the scale of World War Two may have tipped the other way.
“Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them -- I can write in letters which make even the blind see... I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct
Yes, I recall reading that Stalin used to practically harass Churchill for a Second Front, as Russia bore the brunt of the war throughout 1941-9143... The Russians suffered tragedy and defeat countless times before the Allies even drew up their D-Day invasion plans, but for the Arctic convoys and the landings in North Africa, the Russians would have carried a deeper resentment for their so-called comrades across the English Channel and the Atlantic...
The prolonged barrage engulfed Zero-One in the glow of a thousand suns. But unlike their former masters with their delicate flesh, the machines had little to fear of the bombs' radiation and heat. Thus did Zero-One's troops advance outwards in every direction. And one after another, mankind surrendered its territories. So the leaders of men conceived of their most desperate strategy yet. A final solution: the destruction of the sky.
-- The 2nd Renaissance (Part2), Animatrix
Let's face it suffianr,the western powers really didn't give a shit about a load of Bolshies anyway.They were just glad of the diversion,although they did try to get supplies through to them.It was not enough,and most failed to get through anyway.
Yet again,war is shit for the working class,and Stalingrad was one of the shittest battles known to man.Let's remember the dead,and try not to repeat this crap anymore.
*edit*Although I'm not that hopefull.
"a bayonet is a weapon with a worker at both ends"
"I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it."
Vassily rules!
Untrained he grabbed arms for his communist brothers and shot he facists!
It's a pity that there are not a lot of records of Zaitsev. Some people estimate that he shot 500 Germans with his trusted sniper and tatical view.
Let no one charge that socialists have arrayed class against class in this struggle. That has been done long since in the evolution of capitalist society. One class is small and rich and the other large and poor....One consists of capitalists and the other of workers. These two classes are at war. Every day of peace is at the expense of labor. There can be no peace and good will between these two essentially antagonistic economic classes. - Debs
