60th Anniversary of Battle of Stalingrad
 

Remembering the millions who died. . .

http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34 ... cat=russia

*/me salutes*

Victory is a word not strong enough to describe such a battle.

I plan on going there someday.

Read "Stalingrad" by Anthony Beevor...or, alternatively, don't.

I brought it last week.

Stalingrad....The battle that would change the course of history. I salute for those Russians and Germans who lost their lives there.

Wow, 60 yrs huh? Long time since that battle. Well, if anyones from Russia here, go and pay respects man.

How did the Germans exactly lost stalingrad? Something like the Russians surrounding the Panzer army somewhere??!!

[quote="Bazooka_Joe":e3fa9]Wow, 60 yrs huh? Long time since that battle. Well, if anyones from Russia here, go and pay respects man.[/quote:e3fa9]

russians have more respect for the Great Patriotic War than any other people

[quote="Old Reliable":598b3][quote="Bazooka_Joe":598b3]Wow, 60 yrs huh? Long time since that battle. Well, if anyones from Russia here, go and pay respects man.[/quote:598b3]

russians have more respect for the Great Patriotic War than any other people[/quote:598b3]

Id like to think so, they lost in the region of what 20 million people. ed: The closest number to that is germany with around 4 and a half million dead. ed:

More like 30 million.

You know, I never really realized what the conditions of the war were until I watched Enemy At The Gates. The first 20 minutes said it all, man.

Enemy at the Gates, is an awsome movie. I say to all those people who havn't seen it, GO OUT AND RENT IT, or better yet, buy it.

I also plan on going to a bunch of WWII Battle scences and such. Doubt I ever will see them all. But I promised myself that I would go at least into Europe!

i have been to the Moscow Victory Park, it is huge and thousands of people still visit it, kind of like the Wall in DC but everytown has a memorial of some sort.....

Enemy at the Gates is one of my favourite war movies, I downloaded it a few weeks ago.
Strange that they all had brit accents, I would have preferred a cheap russian one. But then I spose its better than having em w/ hollywood ones..

Vassili Zaitsev is one bad mofo.

enemy at the gates sucks watch Stalingrad

My Great Grandfather I am told fought there and I am not Russian so you can presume which side he was on. Only 16 I am told just my Father won't give me the letters that he wrote back to my Great Grandmother. I have seen a picture of him in a German Uniform and my dad says I look almost like him. Of course he is MIA but we can presume he is KIA now.

Stalingrad was one hell of a battle no matter what side you see it from...I salute all those who died there.

well now that Russia is not the USSR, you can go see some of teh biggest baddest battlefields freely.

Wait....If he was 16 when he left for war, and then was MIA, how do you exist? He must'ove been a father at like 15!

I'm confused.

That is what also scare's me too but you never know..