1947 Stalingrad; American Journalists’ Viewpoint

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　　The early spring lasted. Little by little city was getting better after one of the stiffest battles that the land of the USSR has ever seen. City, which at the present time is called Volgograd (yeah, that’s exactly the place where the Mother Russia monument is located), but back then at times of the USSR it was called Stalingrad and was totally leveled by the German army during Battle for Stalingrad in 1942-1943. In 1947 the Cold War didn’t started yet, so the relations between 2 military allies, the USSR and the USA, allowed such “exchange” trips. In this article you will see lots of different things, most of them are really horrifying, but still, they belong to the history of the USSR and no one can blot them out.

　　

　　

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　　Stalingrad-1 train station and people standing in the line and wanting to buy some tickets, either for them to get from this hell of a city out or for their relatives to come here and support them. In 1952 the train station was rebuilt and new station of incredible beauty was erected there. The new station was considered as one of the nicest stations in the whole Soviet Union.

　　

　　

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　　Legendary monument of a fountain depicting children in a reeler. Some time after the waterworks was destroyed. On the photo it stands on the background of ruins of high-risers.

　　

　　

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　　To the right you can see the stela erected in commemoration of heroes that were undertaking the defense of the city. It was risen up right away after the battle was over. To the left convoying lieutenant colonel guiding a group of American journalists where this very man from LIFE journal was.

　　

　　

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　　A camel-drawn wagon. Of course, such a hot sight could not be overpassed by nosy correspondents.

　　

　　

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　　On this shot you can easily see how bad the city was destroyed. No unhurt buildings at all.

　　

　　

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　　Construction site. Only women working as there were too little men left alive after the battle.

　　

　　

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　　German prisoners of the war.

　　下面几张是德军战俘。

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

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　　And some other swell shots that were made by the hands of skilful American journalists:

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

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• easy100 金币 +7 鼓励 2010-10-7 12:00

废墟掩盖不住心灵的春天 很多时候看见类似的图像 还比如中国的那个火热的年代 一种不是口号的积极向上的东西都流淌其间 世间万物好比都是这样的规律吧 从初生的喜悦走到死去的烦乱

英国人总是说伦敦被怎么怎么样了  看看战后的苏联 基本上是从废墟中重生的！

俄罗斯对待战俘的态度我很欣赏，也很赞成，中国总是怕别人说自己不够人道，看看老外，实力就是资本，人道是对人讲的，不能对杀人的野兽说，他们根本就不懂。

其实当年的“红祸”还是引起了西方资本主义国家的强烈恐慌，如果不是“小胡子”在前面顶着的话估计二战的主战场会在俄罗斯的土地上进行！

斯大林格勒不愧是二战第一惨烈战场，四年时光都没能抹去战争的伤害

惨烈!光是看战后的照片就让人很动容了~~

俄罗斯大妈们拿着步枪看守着德国鬼子！令我气愤的是在远东苏联人看守小日本竟然还有和日本人相爱的，上床的就更多了，谁让俄罗斯男人死的太多了

这时的苏联卫国战争已经结速了但街道上断壁残垣还是破乱不堪。

虽然战争胜利了，但是战争对这座城市的伤害是难以磨灭的，虽然苏联已经解体了，虽然这座城市也已经改名为伏尔加格勒，但是发生在这里的一切不会被抹去，毕竟这里是二战素的战场的转折点，这里有超过200万的双方军人战死在这里，斯大林格勒你将永远载入史册