“You went from Magaluf to Stalingrad, On altogether more different snow”
So… what do we know about Stalingrad?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“You went from Magaluf to Stalingrad, On altogether more different snow”
So… what do we know about Stalingrad?
Careful with that spliff, eugene
Turning point of the second world war.
11 February 2019
transit full of keith
It was indeed. I lived there (Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, and before that, Tsaritsyn) for about 6 months in the late 90s and to be honest I can’t recommend a visit. It’s a grey kind of place, rebuilt since the war, and with all the places of interest being war monuments, it can feel a bit oppressive. The battle, which lasted about four months, was unimaginably horrific. I remember chatting to the cleaner at the language school where I worked who had vivid and horrible memories of being evacuated as a child to a village beyond the Volga and looking back to see the river on fire.
11 February 2019
dr desperate
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the end of that conflict, widely regarded as the bloodiest battle in history, with a death toll of up to two million.
2 February 2023