WW2’s Turning Point: Marking 81 Years Since Stalingrad’s Liberation
Red Army soldiers during street fighting in Stalingrad.
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Red Army soldiers during street fighting in Stalingrad.
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Russian troops clearing snow from a road to help their unit advance, northwest of Stalingrad.
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Russian troops clearing snow from a road to help their unit advance, northwest of Stalingrad.
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Soviet Il-2 warplanes on a mission near Stalingrad.
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Soviet Il-2 warplanes on a mission near Stalingrad.
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Portrait of Nastya, a Red army partisan, taken by war photographer Boris Yaroslavtsev, in 1943, during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Portrait of Nastya, a Red army partisan, taken by war photographer Boris Yaroslavtsev, in 1943, during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Alexander Rodimtsev, Major General, Hero of the Soviet Union (3rd right), Commander of the 13th Guards Rifle Division.
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Alexander Rodimtsev, Major General, Hero of the Soviet Union (3rd right), Commander of the 13th Guards Rifle Division.
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A servicewoman in a communications center.
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A servicewoman in a communications center.
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The war-torn city center at the end of the Battle of Stalingrad.
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The war-torn city center at the end of the Battle of Stalingrad.
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One of the numerous hollows in the plains around Stalingrad.
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One of the numerous hollows in the plains around Stalingrad.
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Photo showing the massive amount of tanks abandoned by Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht after their devastating loss at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Photo showing the massive amount of tanks abandoned by Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht after their devastating loss at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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The ruins of Stalingrad.
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The ruins of Stalingrad.
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A school building destroyed during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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A school building destroyed during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Residents seek refuge from the destruction unleashed by a massive Nazi air raid.
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Residents seek refuge from the destruction unleashed by a massive Nazi air raid.
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Musician in the streets of battle-scarred Stalingrad.
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Musician in the streets of battle-scarred Stalingrad.
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Endless, snake-like column of German POWs captured during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Endless, snake-like column of German POWs captured during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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German soldiers captured at Stalingrad, Russia, huddle against sharp winds.
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German soldiers captured at Stalingrad, Russia, huddle against sharp winds.
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Two surrendering Axis troops, holding their hands up, are marched out of a war-ravaged building by one of their Russian captors as the Third Reich's soldiers face defeat in Stalingrad.
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Two surrendering Axis troops, holding their hands up, are marched out of a war-ravaged building by one of their Russian captors as the Third Reich's soldiers face defeat in Stalingrad.
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Soviet soldiers are welcomed as liberators by the people of Stalingrad.
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Soviet soldiers are welcomed as liberators by the people of Stalingrad.
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At the cost of millions of Soviet troops' lives, the Nazi forces were stopped and the Red Army's counteroffensive commenced.
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At the cost of millions of Soviet troops' lives, the Nazi forces were stopped and the Red Army's counteroffensive commenced.
