Historian No. 02/2018 Stalingrad line: History

The magazine about the current past.
The main theme of the number: Stalingrad. The battle that changed the course of World War II.
"75 years ago, on February 2, 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad ended - the main battle not only of our Great Patriotic War, but also the entire World War II. Then there will be a Kursk arc, the operation of Bagration, the capture of Berlin, the victorious banner over the Reichstag. But the basis of all these victories, undoubtedly, was Stalingrad. It was there, on the Volga, that the real man -made miracle occurred, when the Red Army stopped with heavy battles with heavy battles and, having accumulated strength, moved to the enemy. As a slowly straightening spring, it began to move in the opposite direction, it seemed, it seemed, to the edge of the earth, because, as one of the defenders of Stalingrad formulated, "There is no land beyond the Volga ”..." ... "..." ... "