Stalingrad

Stalingrad or Volgograd today or Tsaritsin before Stalin renamed it was the city where a battle with the German army was a turning point in WWII.  Soviet troops were "ordered to take not one step backwards" or a second flank of Soviet soldiers would kill any person who tried.  Eventually, the Soveits surround the Germans, who were not allowed to flee and they have to surrender in February 1943.

Nealry 500,000 Soviets and 500,000 German troops were killed and hundereds of thousands more wounded.

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