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Site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43
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stalingrad
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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name of southern Russian city from 1925-1961, from Stalin (q.v.) + -grad (see yard (n.1)). Now Volgograd , formerly Tsaritsyn (1589), from Turkish sarisin "yellowish," in reference to the river water, but associated in Russian with Tsar .
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Many was the dawn when Padorin had looked west to Stalingrad to see if the factory still stood, a symbol of the Soviet fighting men struggling against the Hitlerite bandits.
Volga at Stalingrad, wheeling south and east to Astrakhan, south into the Kalmyk steppe, taking Maikop and Krasnodar, on to the Kuban.
While Luis lay in a hospital cut open and closed again, a chunk of him in a bucket and tossed away the world saw Stalingrad and the Soviet counteroffensive that shoved the German army all the way west beyond Kursk.
Ships docked to load up our national products, goods transported from Stalingrad, Stalinsk, Stalino, Stalinbad, Stalinir, Stalinkan, and Stalinovo, goods to be sent forth to a waiting world: caviar and sables, vodka and papirosi, heroin and hashish, plutonium and red mercury, balalaikas, matryoshkas, lapel pins, rayon banners, platinum busts of our leaders, and coypu.
Banner headlines bawled of Allied breakthroughs in Morocco, the flight of Rommel, the encirclement of the Germans at Stalingrad.
Essentially, once Paulus's army surrendered at Stalingrad, the Caucasus Force faced a complete cutoff of their line of retreat After considerable dithering, Hitler put the very able General von Manstein in charge of the northern and most threatened of these luckless armies, to pull him out of the mess.
By August 23, units of the German Sixth Army reached the Volga River just north of Stalingrad.
It used to be Stalingrad before the Party went through one of its periodic interchangings of black and white and deglorified the great dictator's memory.
The great crunch at Stalingrad has given my editor the notion of sending me back to the Soviet Union.
He issued strict orders that the Sixth Army must stand fast in Stalingrad.