Stalingrad

[norwie2010]

70 years ago the friends of my grandparents lost -  and the grandparents of my friends won. I cannot choose my family - but i can choose my friends.

"History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of Soviet Russia." Henry L Stimson, Secretary of War, USA

"We and our allies owe and acknowledge an everlasting debt of

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It's really extraordinary. Thank you for posting this.

Question: what is your icon? I can't quite parse that image for some reason.

[norwie2010]

It is a picture of a red army soldier raising the Red Flag over the Reichstag, Berlin, May 1945. The banner of victory over fascism. :)

The banner was made by Yevgeny Khaldei, war reporter, Jew.

[local_max]

Ohh, now I can finally parse it. See, for some reason I couldn't see that it was a flag. visual perception is a problem. I should go find a higher-res version of that image :).

[norwie2010]

Search "red flag over reichstag" - this gives hundreds of pictures. :) The picture is an arranged photo.

Actually, i wanted to supplement my post above with a picture of a Nazi plane crashed and burned in Stalingrad, but, you know, morbidity is not always a good thing. So many died there.

480,000 soldiers of the Red Army died (with more than 650,000 wounded) while defeating the fascist menace:

The Romanian 3rd and 4th army were annihilated (350,000 men), the Italian 8th army (235,000 men), the Hungarian 2nd army (200,000 men), the German 6th army (330,000 men), parts of the German 4th Panzer army ceased to exist.

So, so many lives lost.