On this day, November 22, 1942, General Friedrich Paulus telegrammed Adolf Hitler explaining to him the German Sixth Army was surrounded by the Red Army.
Hitler refused to take Paulus’ advice and ordered him to fight on.
It was the first significant defeat for the Germans in the war and the defeat in February in Stalingrad was the beginning of the end for Germany.
But for Stalingrad what might have happened?
Irish history school books gave little or no mention of the significance of what happened on the River Volga; we were told the US and UK won the war. Not so.
And then following the collapse of the Soviet Union the West refused to give Gorbachev the funding he requested.
Had the West helped the newly formed Russian Federation would it have been possible for Putin ever to have become President of Russia?
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