Volgograd (Stalingrad) - The journey back to the Soviet Union

About the date Stalingrad battle started:

Differences in specifying the start date of the Battle of Stalingrad may stem from using two different perspectives on the events of that time. In this context, both dates have their justifications:

July 17, 1942: This date is associated with the beginning of the German summer offensive operation known as "Fall Blau." As part of this operation, German forces, including those heading towards Stalingrad, initiated their attacks. This stage of the operation can be considered a preliminary phase of the Battle of Stalingrad, even though the actual battle unfolded later.

August 23, 1942: This date marks the onset of the direct assault on Stalingrad. On this day, German forces reached the suburbs of Stalingrad and commenced their advance on the city itself. This moment is typically regarded as the start of the Battle of Stalingrad as the city became the main point of contention.

Therefore, discrepancies in the specified dates may depend on which stage of the events the source is focusing on. Some might consider the beginning of the battle from the outset of the offensive operation, while others fixate on the start of the conflict as the forces approached the city.

Thanks for the video

If I had only one ticket to go to Russia, I would pick Volgograd as my destination

good job.... nb; u could even add more B/W originals images from that battle time ! the volga is impressiv and heavy~lovely... The space between the volga and the don is the nicest glance i ve had into that immense russia... (i met one authentic cosaque woman (proud) roaming the steppe with 2 barzoois >daring the wind) that steppe was "bloosoming" of billions flowers . That Russia has got everything a man is expecting.

Так некрасиво показать Волгоград надо было постараться! Хоть бы кого нибудь из местных попросил показать достопримечательности и красивые места!

Syytän venäläisiä siitä, että he ovat turruttaneet minut raa'alle väkivallalle. Ennen armeijan erikoisoperaatioita en voinut katsella droonien tappavan oikeita ihmisiä. Nyt voit usein nähdä, kuinka ukrainalaiset käyttävät drooneja pääasiassa venäläisten sotilaiden laajamittaiseen tuhoamiseen, ja tämä ei järkytä minua ollenkaan. Päinvastoin, näyttää välttämättömältä estää Venäjää toteuttamasta hirvittäviä suunnitelmiaan.

I always wanted to see the city in person, personally to me it doesn't matter if It's not popular for alot of people, Must be awesome to see most of the area in the city, nice video👍🏼

Grey winter + grey city=depresssive view. Emptimmness also adds ghosty vibes. Summer shows more lifeful picture of the city

City of the dead.

napoleon has his waterloo.
the people that invented VolksWagen have StalingGrad.
it is intresting people still buying kdf VW, it has a great nazi history. and you can still buy or drive a corrupt volkswagen diesel.

Your Videos are pretty cool,but speak slower and the subtitles(trainslataion)as well..Dankeschön 🙋🏼‍♂️👍🏻

At Stalingrad Romanians fight too. Elena Rossetti Solescu was Feldmarschal Von Paulus wife, from Romanian aristocracy.❤

You managed to make Volgograd boring. 👍👏👏

Ты предал родину за доллар от ютуба 🤣🤣

Отключили монетизацию в россии и русские (нужно учить английски и делать контет на английском 🤣)🤣 просто непотопляемый утёнок

Is it me or does it look more poignant in the snow?

Very good video, I’ve always wanted to visit there and explore the museums and history.

keep up the good work!

The great patriotic war?
WW2 would not have happened if Stalin & Ribbentrop had not agreed to start the war by attacking and sharing Poland and giving the three Baltic countries to Rusland. And the military disaster of 1941-42 costing millions of russian life’s would not have happened without the catastrophic russian/soviet/stalino policies. As a Dane I am happy that Hitler was crushed at Stalingrad, as a human and a historian I am chocked by propagandistic presentations like this. The odeur of colony-imperialism lies beneath every sentence.

Can I give the link on Facebook and Twitter?

Beautiful. The snow makes the sculptures even more impressive.

I wish you had shown more of the famous sculpture at the train station of the children in a ring around the alligator/crocodile. I could just barely see it but is very famous in depictions of Stalingrad during the war,.

Смотрю про Волгоград из Твери....

Awful city and awful country!

The Famous City for Historians..
Han Comrade Our Victory Start from this City

Оба-на... Красноармейский ... Наш район, не, ну надо ж фиг знает откуда прилететь, чтобы поснимать наш район!!! 🤣🤣😂👍👍👍😎😎😎

You guys still milking that win from 80 years ago. It was close, very close.

Very nice. One thing that you didn't touch on though, was just how precarious the Soviet situation was...for longer than a month. The Soviets controlled just a sliver of the bank, which gave them just enough of an disembarkment area for troops crossing the Volga. One of the the memorials/monuments, is actually a very large black wall running about two hundred yards along the bank....only about 150 feet (not yards) from the river. This was put there to mark the end of of the bank area controlled by the Red Army. Beyond that wall, you were inside Stalingrad, right in the heat of the battle. It was really remarkable to see that, to get an appreciation for must how little area the Red Army actually held. You did show the relation of the preserved building to the river with that drone shot. That building was actually just beyond the bank held by the Red Army. What you didn't show, was that Pavlov's house was equally as close. It is directly across the road from that preserved building. So, you had fierce fighting in an apartment building literally less than 50 yards from the only sliver of land actually held by the Soviets. Nothing matched Stalingrad. Not Iwo Jima (Sorry, Americans) and certainly not Normandy. Not even the battle of Berlin...because although a larger battle, and just as fierce, there was no uncertainty involved. The outcome of that battle was inevitable. Not so with Stalingrad.

I really enjoy watching your travels. The Battle and Siege of Stalingrad was truly an epic thing. So many people died on both sides.

Ніхто не вірить, що Росія відмовиться від своєї традиції використання військової сили як частини зовнішньої політики країни. Світогляд Росії абсолютно відрізняється від світогляду західних країн. Крім того, Росії подобається думати, що вона сама має дбати про свою безпеку на лінії фронту.

Президент Росії Володимир Путін заявив, наприклад, що розпад Радянського Союзу був найбільшою геополітичною катастрофою минулого століття. Протягом століть Росія намагалася придушити зміцнення України як окремої нації. Інтеграція України в західне співтовариство – це загроза з точки зору Росії, Україна – найбільша геополітична проблема Росії.

Путін має відверту одержимість контролем над Україною.
За словами Путіна, втратити Україну на користь табору Заходу також було б важко, оскільки Україна як член Євросоюзу та НАТО представляла б себе альтернативою авторитарній суспільній системі Росії.

Great video from start to finish Ivan!

Never blame the young men who faught the war blame the politicians who started it

Город знают как Сталинград , а волгоград - пфе, город уныния и деградации.

L'u.r.s.s a perdue 27 millions de personnes durant ce conflit....merci d'en parler ici car peu le savent en occident . La Russie garde des valeurs que nous sommes en train de perdre en occident...Dieu protege nos enfants !

Happy to see Krasnoarmeyski, the city (rayon) where I was born, I live in Germany now and meet a lot of Wolga Germans who repatriated here after USSR collapsed

War😢😢😢All those names...

Спасибо 😊

A well done video of a special city. A great and deservedly proud people. I found the Don-Volga canal to be most enlightening.
As for the monuments and cemeteries one can tell much about a people by how they treat their fallen.

Brilliant video

There’s a metro stop in Paris called Stalingrad

Привет из Волгограда! Мы рады видеть всех иностранцев, так как именно Сталинград (Волгоград) во многом связывает народы Европы и Азии, которые были объедены в борьбе с общим злом!

Nu Pogodi was popular in Europe as well : )

Gruß aus Brandenburg 🇩🇪
Greetings from Brandenburg 🇩🇪
Pozdrawiam Brandenburgii
Amities Brandenbourg ❤️

My heart goes out for all the countless men who never came home to their families. So many, so very many died. Your videos have never failed to educate and entertain me. I see your world better thru you than any other way I have tried. Thank You. And to all the arguing commenters, Arguing is fine, but to do in in a video where millions have died is reprehensive.

Great work Vagabond, your videos are so fascinating. seeing all those names on the walls and cubes really hits home

What is the opinion of current Russian generation on the Soviet Era and its leaders?
Plz tell

Below the wall just below steps up to Mother Russia statue are series of stone bas reliefs. Most victorois Red Army, bit to right is a set of hapless German prisoners including a diabolical looking officer. These become blurred towards boundary near local rough. Next stop Siberia?

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