The Bloodiest Battle in Human History! 🔥🔥🔥 Soviet People in the Fight Against Nazism!

The Bloodiest Battle in Human History! 🔥🔥🔥 Soviet People in the Fight Against Nazism! Tags for promotion on Youtube: Russia, russia vlog, life in russia, Second world war, stalingrad battle, soviet army, russian army, changing of the guards, mamaev kurgan, battle of stalingrad, eternal flame, stalingrad, ww2, world war ii, world war 2, soviet union, wwii, eastern front, history, world war, second world war, red army, stalingrad world war 2, 1942 stalingrad, history channel, ussr, war stories, soviet russia, nazi germany, stalingrad second world war, why did the soviets win at stalingrad #ww2 #stalingrad #ussr #russia The Second World War!!!! The Soviet Union and allies are fighting against Nazi Germany. The most terrible period in the history of the 20th century!!! Battle of Stalingrad!!! 200 days, millions of soldiers, thousands of tanks and planes - the Battle of Stalingrad became one of the largest in the history of mankind. 1. The Battle of Stalingrad lasted 200 days, from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943. It includes two stages - from the beginning of the battle until November 18, 1942, the Germans were advancing, and the Red Army was defending, but on November 19, the Red Army launched a counteroffensive, which turned out to be a complete surprise for the Nazi invaders. 2. Not only the Germans fought against the Soviet Red Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. The enemy army also included Romanian, Hungarian, Italian and Croatian armies. Croats were the least of all, about 4,000 people. 3. The battle for Stalingrad was not only in the area of ​​the city itself. By the time it began, the Stalingrad Front stretched for 520 km, and later this figure increased to 800 km. 4. It was after the victory of the USSR in the Battle of Stalingrad that a radical change occurred in both the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War. Until that moment, Germany was advancing, and the Red Army was retreating, but after this battle, everything changed, and the Red Army began to push the invaders back to the west. 5. Most of Stalingrad, now called Volgograd, was destroyed during the fighting. In one day, August 23, 1942, German aircraft bombed more than half of the buildings in the city, and more than 90 thousand people, mostly civilians, died under bombs and rubble. 6. According to official figures, 1,129,619 people died on the Soviet side in the Battle of Stalingrad, more than 500 thousand small arms, 4341 tanks and self-propelled artillery mounts, 2769 combat aircraft and more than 15,700 mortars and guns were lost. The Germans lost about 1.5 million people and even more equipment and weapons. 7. The tank factory in Stalingrad did not stop working even in the most difficult days, when the city was bombed, and there were fierce firefights on the streets. He continued to produce T-34 tanks, which went straight from the assembly line into battle. 8. The encircled German army under the command of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus finally surrendered. A year and a half later, the captured Paulus agreed to cooperate with the USSR, began to call on German prisoners of war to go over to the side of the Soviet Union and demand the overthrow of Hitler. Paulus maintained these views until his death in 1957. Field Marshal Paulus held this military rank, the highest in the Third Reich, for only one day, Hitler assigned it to him the day before Paulus capitulated. At the same time, Hitler reminded him that not a single German field marshal had ever been captured, hinting that in a hopeless situation, Paulus would be better off committing suicide. However, the newly-made field marshal did not want to sacrifice the lives of his people in an already lost battle, and therefore preferred to surrender, and he himself was not included in his plans to shoot himself. 9. The fighting in Stalingrad was incredibly fierce. Later it was calculated that the average life of a soldier, both Soviet and German, under these conditions was about 15 minutes. 10. The defenders of Stalingrad often lacked the bare necessities - ammunition, weapons, food, medicines. But the Germans also had a hard time, it got to the point that the starving German soldiers ate the horses that pulled the artillery pieces, just not to die of hunger. One of the most important points in the defense of Stalingrad was Mamaev Kurgan. Mamaev Kurgan changed hands 14 times, and more than 10 thousand Soviet soldiers gave their lives for I am on a tour of Mamaev Kurgan and invite you to see The Changing of the guard at the Eternal Flame on Mamaev Kurgan. At the end of the video - a small review of prices in a village store near Volgograd, how people live here now. Enjoy, dear friends! 00:00-02:44 Introduction 02:44-08:11 Changing of the guard at the Eternal Flame on Mamaev Kurgan 08:11-10:52 Great Monument of Motherland 10:52-13:25 Grocery store in small village near Volgograd