On this date 70 years ago, August 22, 1942, the battle of Stalingrad began.
The Luftwaffe bombed the city almost close to total destruction. But it was that very bombing that gave the Soviet Army the chance to counter attack in sniper fire in every ruined building on the banks of the Volga.
Many historians will agree that it was on the Volga that the decisive strike against Nazi Germany was made.
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