In honor of the 70th anniversary of the epic house-to-house struggle, Volgograd will become Stalingrad again.
Was Stalingrad really he turning point that spelled the downfall of Nazi Germany?
Russians have been celebrating the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Battles over finances and custody remain the Iwo Jima and Stalingrad of divorce cases.
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He had been an anti-aircraft gunner during the Battle of Stalingrad and went missing in action.
In 1942, the German army began its all-out attack on Stalingrad against stiff Soviet resistance.
Mourka the courier cat reportedly carried messages to Soviet troops during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942.
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Glantz sees Stalingrad as one of a trio of battles that sealed the fate of the Third Reich.
He flew in by way of Stalingrad, where the Red Army had turned back the Germans that winter.
From Stalingrad some Soviet soldiers fought all the way to Berlin, he adds.
As a result, Honduras could be called the political Stalingrad of Latin America.
At the Battle of Stalingrad, 50, 000 Soviet citizens, including turncoats, volunteers and conscripts, were fighting on the German side.
"It was like Stalingrad in 1942, " Mr. Stock says of the day in late 2007 when he flew into Mogadishu.
In 1943, after a week of heavy fighting, German field marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad.
Each had four or five German watches on his forearm, not as trophies from Stalingrad and Kursk, but for trade.
In terms of strict military strategy, the Germans made some very costly mistakes in Crete, Stalingrad, Norway, and North Africa .
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The city of Stalingrad, which was renamed Volgograd in 1961, has regained its wartime name for the event, following a council decision.
He played a crucial role in orchestrating the encircling counteroffensive at Stalingrad.
During that magic time, television weathermen can refer to their city as Stalingrad, and no doubt there will be commemorations of the epic battle.
Antony Beevor took the prize two years ago for Stalingrad, while last year it went to biographer David Cairns for Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness.
The Russian city once known as Stalingrad is to regain its old name during commemorations of the famous World War II battle on Saturday.
Under the decision, passed by the council on Wednesday, the title "Hero City Stalingrad" will be used during commemorations as "a symbol of Volgograd".
Yet to portray Stalingrad as mere military history misses the point.
Doggedly, Mrs Yudina continued printing it in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), 320 kilometres (200 miles) away, and copies of the newspaper were brought into Kalmykia by car.
Gergiev, who is also principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, performed a requiem of Russian music for a city he compared in a speech to Stalingrad.
The left's candidate, ex-mayor of a town once known as Italy's Stalingrad, could scarcely be more typical of the ex-communisti Mr Berlusconi uses as bogeymen to scare the middle classes.
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It had even forgotten the lesson of its own victory in the battle of Stalingrad in 1943: that cities can be taken only with relentless determination and with infantry attacks.
The second world war saw mass murder (in the Holocaust, notably) or wilful killing (the nuclear strike on Hiroshima, the firebombing of Dresden, the siege of Stalingrad) of tens of millions of non-combatants.
Stalingrad has significance beyond mere history, however epic.
With several books already under his belt, Mr Beevor became known in 1998 for his epic account of the siege of Stalingrad, and went on to produce accounts of D-Day and the fall of Berlin.
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