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As we all know, during the Second World War, the Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in the entire Second World War, when the German army lost a quarter of the total strength in the Soviet-German battlefield and the fascist Axis camp began to lose.
The Battle of Stalingrad can be said to be the largest in the history of human civilization, the largest number of participants and casualties, and the bloodiest hot weapons battle, and the entire history of human warfare is unparalleled.
After the battle, the Allied camp (soviets) began to switch from defense to offense, and the overstretched German army was tired of dealing with all kinds of passivity, and no longer had the ability to launch a large-scale attack on the eastern front.
However, the skinny camel was bigger than the horse, and after the Battle of Stalingrad, the German army on the eastern front once again gathered a large number of troops in the Kursk region in a vain attempt to recover the decline on the eastern front through a "wave of streams". However, contrary to expectations, the anger and revenge of the Soviets never gave the Germans a chance to fight back.
At the time of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviets and Germans had invested more than a million troops, and the casualties of this war, if measured in days, would have resulted in thousands of casualties every day.
According to incomplete statistics, the Soviet casualties in this battle exceeded one million, and if you add those who are so-called missing, the Soviet side lost about 1.13 million troops.
Looking at the Axis camp, which included Germany and Romania, the loss of casualties in the camp also reached 850,000. After the war, the number of people buried in a "nameless tomb" in Stalingrad alone reached 400,000. It can be seen that this battle is indeed extremely cruel.
During World War II, Stalingrad was arguably a very important city in the Soviet Union, and its strategic significance was naturally self-evident for both the Soviet Union and Germany.
Therefore, in this campaign, both sides deployed a large number of heavy troops here, and also set up a place to "attract" enemy forces. It was also in this way that Stalingrad during World War II had a cruel nickname: The Mill of Flesh and Blood. The two sides continue to replenish a large number of soldiers here, and the living life is fleeting.
At the beginning of the battle, the German army occupied an absolute advantage in terms of strength and firepower, and the Soviet army only used the "millet plus rifle", fortunately, there were many people, and it was continuously replenished here, resisting steel with blood.
For the cruelty of the Battle of Stalingrad, some scholars have deliberately made statistics, a unit with tens of thousands of troops, thrown into the Battle of Stalingrad, generally in three days can be exhausted.
The average survival time of Soviet soldiers in the Battle of Stalingrad on the battlefield generally did not exceed 24 hours. At that time, there was an unwritten rule that if a recruit could survive for more than three days, he could be promoted directly to company commander. This reflects the cruelty of the Battle of Stalingrad from the side.
In fact, not only the Battle of Stalingrad, but also the entire Soviet-German battlefield on the Eastern Front, such large-scale battles are not uncommon, and the casualties of the Soviet union and Germany are also shocking to posterity.
The Battle of Stalingrad lasted about 200 days, and the Soviets paid a staggering price for it, with the Soviet casualty ratio exceeding 5:1 at the outbreak of the battle, and the losses in the armor of the war were as high as 5:1.
It is no exaggeration to say that the final victory of the Soviet army in the Battle of Stalingrad on the Soviet-German Eastern Front was filled in with the lives of countless Soviet soldiers.
There was a saying among the Soviet soldiers (the soldiers guarding Stalingrad): We have occupied the kitchen, but the living room is still in the hands of the Germans. This shows how tragic the battle was. The day the war will finally end, after the Battle of Stalingrad, the damage and losses caused by it are also shocking.
After the end of the Second World War, there was a special statistics on the Soviet side, and only nearly twenty percent of soviet men born in 1923 survived until the end of World War II, and most of those eighty percent died in the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union. At the same time, according to the memories of German veterans at that time, the cruelty of the Soviet-German battlefield on the eastern front was completely incomparable to that of the western front.
To this day, Russia also holds a grand commemorative ceremony on the occasion of the "Victory Memorial Day" every year to commemorate the difficulty and commemoration of the Heroic Soul of the Soviet Military and Civilians in the Great Patriotic War.
References for this article: "The Complete History of World War II", "World War II", "Battle of Stalingrad", "Scorched Earth", "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Terms - World War II, Soviet-German War, Eastern Front Battlefield, etc."