Stalingrad
[stah-lin-grad; Russian stuh-lyin-graht]
- former name of Volgograd.
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Contemporary Examples
The Third Reich met its nemesis as much here as it had—albeit in far greater numbers—at Stalingrad.
Stalingrad, of course, was the epic battle of World War II which the Soviets finally won.
It would be unfunny, for different reasons, if set at Verdun or Gettysburg or Stalingrad.
His Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945 are filled with vivid details.
Historical Examples
This had to be the greatest sockdolager since Goebbels explained Stalingrad.
TelempathyVance Simonds
Tobolsk doesn't appear on any of the maps, but it is a tiny village situated about eighty miles west of Stalingrad on the Volga.
Dave Dawson on the Russian FrontR. Sidney Bowen
When the German troops reached Stalingrad they picked you up and other Russian people?
Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Let me see, in 1943, in time war; Germans come and taken over Stalingrad and pick me up and send to Germany.
Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
And, you actually went to Siberia before you came to Stalingrad?
Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Stalingrad
- the former name (1925–61) of Volgograd
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