eb. 2 marks 75 years since the end of the bloodiest battle in the history of mankind. It changed the course of WWII and resigned Germany to defeat. How could did this happen to the Nazis who boasted one of the strongest armies the world's ever seen? Here are 3 reasons the Red Army triumphed in the battle for Stalingrad.
1. Stiff Soviet resistance
The German onslaught in the summer of 1942 on Stalingrad was almost impossible to stop. Berlin aspired to take the city at any cost and cut supply routes via the Volga River and deprive Moscow of Caucasian oil. To counter the German offensive the Soviets accumulated all their resources. To boost the morale and discipline of the troops Joseph Stalin issued the famous Order 227. It blamed “some stupid people at the front” who “calm themselves with talk that we can retreat further to the east” and stated that it was “time to finish retreating.”
