We have looked several times at the history of the Battle of Stalingrad and the city that it occurred in in posts like Victory at...

General Vasily Chuikov (future Marshal of the Soviet Union), Commander of the 62nd Army, at his command post during the Battle of...

The Motherland Calls Stalingrad Monument under construction, April 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1212 From the Soviet Press, April 1963: Overgrown...

Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It honours the great victory at Stalingrad in February,...

Marshals of the Soviet Union remember the great triumph of the Red Army in July-August 1943 that ended all Nazi hopes for victory on the...

The Motherland Calls Memorial Complex, Volgograd (Stalingrad), USSR From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th...

With news from France, Britain, Ecuador, India, Venezuela, Vietnam, Russia, Belgium and elsewhere. Communists marching in the British...

The Motherland Calls Memorial Complex in Volgograd (Stalingrad) The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) paid tribute to the victory of the...

On this day in 1943 the last of the Nazi generals at Stalingrad (General Strecker) surrendered. The Soviet Red Army, after the largest...

The great Spanish Communist leader Dolores Ibarruri and the monument-ensemble sculptor, laureate of the Lenin Prize E. V. Vuchetich on...

Vasily Zaitsev (far left) instructs other Soviet snipers, Stalingrad, December 1942 Vasily Zaitsev is perhaps the most famous of all the...

The Motherland Calls memorial complex in Volgograd (Stalingrad), USSR c. 1975 -- Daily LIFT #848

In early May 1948 -- only just over 5 years after the end of the devastating battle for the city and 3 years after the end of the Second...

Crossing the Dnieper - Woodcut, V. I. Masyk February 23 was Red Army Day in the former USSR. It celebrated the formation of the Red Army...

The two remarkable documents republished here are from the first anniversary of the February 2, 1943 victory. A street in Stalingrad just...

On January 26, 1943 Soviet forces captured the heights of Mamayev Kurgan in the city of Stalingrad from the Nazis ending 135 days of...

Fidel Castro visits Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd (Stalingrad) during the construction of the Motherland Calls memorial complex, USSR 1963...

On the stairs to the Stalingrad Memorial Complex The Motherland Calls, Volgograd, USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #545

The Motherland Calls Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex at Volgograd (Stalingrad) 1975 -- Daily LIFT #482 Tomorrow, June 22, marks the 80th...

A look at the Hero City of Volgograd / Stalingrad in war and peace. On February 2, 1943 the Nazis left in the city surrendered and the...