🌟 Today Russia marks the Day of Military Glory – the Day of defeat of Nazi troops in the Battle of Stalingrad.
81 years ago, the Wehrmacht’s northern grouping in Stalingrad surrendered to the Red Army (following 2 days after the southern group led by General Field Marshal F.Paulus had done the same).
❗️The Battle of Stalingrad became one of the largest and bloodiest battles ever involving up to 2,1 million participants from both USSR and Nazi allies (Germans, Italians, Romanians, Hungarians). Soviet victory marked the turning point in WW2 with USSR seizing strategic initiative from Nazis.
☝️ In comparison, the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa often portrayed by Western historians as having decided the outcome of WW2 involved 335.000 soldiers from both sides.
👉 The Wehrmacht’s losses at Stalingrad amounted to 900.000, at El Alamein – some 28.000.
✍️ An English journalist is said to have written once that in 28 days Hitler captured the whole of Poland and in Stalingrad during the same period managed to capture only one house.
France surrendered to the Nazis in 38 days, for which the defenders of Stalingrad gave them only one street.
#WWII #WeRemember #BattleOfStalingrad
81 years ago, the Wehrmacht’s northern grouping in Stalingrad surrendered to the Red Army (following 2 days after the southern group led by General Field Marshal F.Paulus had done the same).
❗️The Battle of Stalingrad became one of the largest and bloodiest battles ever involving up to 2,1 million participants from both USSR and Nazi allies (Germans, Italians, Romanians, Hungarians). Soviet victory marked the turning point in WW2 with USSR seizing strategic initiative from Nazis.
☝️ In comparison, the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa often portrayed by Western historians as having decided the outcome of WW2 involved 335.000 soldiers from both sides.
👉 The Wehrmacht’s losses at Stalingrad amounted to 900.000, at El Alamein – some 28.000.
✍️ An English journalist is said to have written once that in 28 days Hitler captured the whole of Poland and in Stalingrad during the same period managed to capture only one house.
France surrendered to the Nazis in 38 days, for which the defenders of Stalingrad gave them only one street.
#WWII #WeRemember #BattleOfStalingrad
📆 19 November 1942 marked turning the tide of the Battle of Stalingrad.
#OTD Soviet troops of the South-Western, the Don and the Stalingrad fronts after numerous clashes with invaders inside the city commenced a counter-offensive codenamed “Uranus.”
The operation was drawn up by the renowned Soviet generals of #WW2 Alexander Vasilevsky and Georgy Zhukov.
⚔️ After thorough artillery shelling, the Red Army attacked from the northwest and the south with both army groups meeting in the area of Kalach-on-the-Don. This resulted in encirclement of the Nazi 6th Army led by Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus and both Axis-allied Romanian armies.
⚔️ Soviet command believed that Nazis had up to 100,000 troopers deployed at Stalingrad whilst Wehrmacht forces amounted to some 300,000 making the enveloped enemy’s grouping much stronger than it had been considered. Therefore, a separate military operation “Ring” was later developed aimed at liquidation of the encircled forces.
☝️ As a result of the Stalingrad offensive, 2 German armies were annihilated with 2 Romanian and 1 Italian armies crushed leading to the decisive Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad and the beginning of a major turnaround during WW2.
🌟 To commemorate Soviet artillery’s great contribution to the successful outcome of the operation, 19 Nov was established as the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery.
#Victory79 #WeRemember #BattleofStalingrad #WW2
#OTD Soviet troops of the South-Western, the Don and the Stalingrad fronts after numerous clashes with invaders inside the city commenced a counter-offensive codenamed “Uranus.”
The operation was drawn up by the renowned Soviet generals of #WW2 Alexander Vasilevsky and Georgy Zhukov.
⚔️ After thorough artillery shelling, the Red Army attacked from the northwest and the south with both army groups meeting in the area of Kalach-on-the-Don. This resulted in encirclement of the Nazi 6th Army led by Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus and both Axis-allied Romanian armies.
⚔️ Soviet command believed that Nazis had up to 100,000 troopers deployed at Stalingrad whilst Wehrmacht forces amounted to some 300,000 making the enveloped enemy’s grouping much stronger than it had been considered. Therefore, a separate military operation “Ring” was later developed aimed at liquidation of the encircled forces.
☝️ As a result of the Stalingrad offensive, 2 German armies were annihilated with 2 Romanian and 1 Italian armies crushed leading to the decisive Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad and the beginning of a major turnaround during WW2.
🌟 To commemorate Soviet artillery’s great contribution to the successful outcome of the operation, 19 Nov was established as the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery.
#Victory79 #WeRemember #BattleofStalingrad #WW2