🎖The Battle of Stalingrad. 8️⃣0️⃣-th anniversary.

📆It's time to look back on the past where history falsification was nowhere to be found and everybody knew who saved the world from Nazis.

Many prominent politicians, generals, historians, public figures and writers highly appreciated the historical significance of the Battle of Stalingrad. (Part 2)

💬Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1940 1945 and 1951 1955: “Stalingrad itself became a symbol of courage, the steadfastness of the Russian people and at the same time a symbol of the greatest human suffering. This symbol will be preserved in the centuries. It is necessary that future generations can see and feel with their own eyes all the greatness of the victory won by the Volga and all the horrors of the destructive war raging there. It would be nice to leave untouched the terrible ruins of this legendary city, and next to build a new, modern city. The ruins of Stalingrad, like the ruins of Carthage, would forever remain a kind of monument of human fortitude and suffering. They would attract pilgrims from all parts of the world and serve as a warning to future generations…”

💬Mao Zedong, 1st Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party: “The Red Army’s defence of Stalingrad in these forty-eight days has a certain similarity to the defence of Moscow last year. That is to say, Hitler’s plan for this year has been foiled just as was his plan for last year… once its offensive stops its very life stops too…
Napoleon’s political life ended at Waterloo, but the decisive turning point was his defeat at Moscow. Hitler today is treading Napoleon’s road, and it is the Battle of Stalingrad that has sealed his doom… All those who take a pessimistic view of the world situation should change their point of view.”

💬Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1959–1969): “There is no single honest Frenchman who would not welcome the victory of Russia. While the power of Germany, its prestige are shaken, the sun of Russian glory is rising to its zenith.”

💬Geoffrey Barraclough, British historian: “It was the Russian victory at Stalingrad in 1943 that made a total revision of European history imperative… If we needed the shock of Stalingrad to understand the narrowness of our Western historiography, it was only because the political prejudices underlying our Western historical science blinded us regarding the true balance of power in 1943.”

💬Tomas Mann, German writer: “The victorious defence of Stalingrad is one of the feats that history will always tell with the greatest reverence…”