The farther from Moscow, the less filthiness in the appearance of Russian cities. Probably, this is not for long, soon the liberal scum will reach the regions, but so far people remember the feats of their ancestors and respect their feat. A good example is the city of Volgograd, aka Stalingrad, where the memory of the fierce battles of the Great Patriotic War is alive and well supported.
Above the city - Mamaev Kurgan. Motherland stands on Mamayev Kurgan. She raises her sword, calling on the people to fight the German aggressor. In the city of Magnitogorsk, there is a monument where a worker passes a sword forged in the Urals to a soldier. It was to the Urals that Lavrenty Beria evacuated factories and factories, it was there that our sword was forged. And in Treptow Park, in the city of Berlin, there is a Soviet soldier-liberator. With his left hand he holds the rescued German girl, in his right - a lowered sword. That is, the sword, forged in the Urals and raised on the Volga, was lowered in Berlin, where Soviet troops finally beat the Nazi reptile.
When the battle for Stalingrad was going on, there was no living space on the mound. To the bank of the Volga from him - a stone's throw, everything is in full view. Our troops grabbed onto the shore, the Germans were sitting on the mound and German artillery was stationed. Looking down from the hillock, it is impossible to understand how it was possible to hold on there at all, all the more so to advance up the slope. The entire mound is a huge mass grave, where tens of thousands of our ancestors lie. Today people are walking around the mound.
On the slope, there are memorial plates that mark the heroes of the defense of Stalingrad. There is also a plate dedicated to the legendary sniper Vasily Zaitsev. Vasya Zaitsev served in the Pacific Fleet as chief of the financial unit. The war began. As befits a normal Russian peasant, Vasily wrote a report with a request to send him to the front. The fifth report worked and Vasily was sent to Stalingrad. There, the chief of the financial unit immediately began to kill the Germans and showed himself to be an excellent shooter. When Vasya overwhelmed 32 Germans from a simple three-line, the command issued yesterday's sailor with a three-line with a sniper scope. During the battles for Stalingrad, Vasily Zaitsev destroyed more than 300 German soldiers and officers, including 11 snipers. And his comrades in the sniper movement, organized by him, overwhelmed a total of six thousand Germans.
The stump is clear, the Nazi leadership was worried about such alignments. The command of the Wehrmacht dispatched the head of the sniper school to Stalingrad, giving him the strictest order to destroy Vasya Zaitsev. By the way, the sniper school was located in the town of Zossen, where I studied at a school nearby, at a Soviet military base. Vasya received a similar order - to immediately destroy the fascist bastard. In general, on the one hand - a civilized European, a whole Standartenfuehrer, on the other - a totalitarian scoop from the Soviet village. Less than three days later, Vasya tracked down the standartenfuehrer and shot him down like a fool. This is how our totalitarian ancestors fought for their land.
Vasily Zaitsev wrote a book of memoirs called For us there was no land beyond the Volga. Not so long ago, "based on" this book, the film "Enemy at the Gates" was filmed in the West. The title is a biblical quote "the enemy is at the gates", but what can you take from the masters of dubbing. Naturally, the film was shot by a liberal intellectual who has no idea of either the army, or the war, or the Soviet people. Accordingly, I was filming not about our soldiers, but about my sick fantasies. The result is a film about stupid Russian bastards who can neither live nor fight. But nothing, soon Fyodor Bondarchuk will please us with another masterpiece, to whom the state has already given money to shoot the film "Stalingrad". 3D, of course. This one won't let you down.
The memorial complex of the Mamayev Kurgan is majestic and extremely severe. Everything was done without fuss, from gray concrete. Our country is poor, we do not live well. But it is gray concrete that most correctly reflects the essence of people in kirzachs and sweatshirts who defeated the best army in Europe. This is where the children should be gathered. But the current government is designed for this Seliger.
Of course, an eternal flame burns on the mound. It is gratifying that an honor guard is still standing near him.
Closer to the Volga is the legendary Pavlov's house. For some reason, it remains in memory as the house of Lieutenant Pavlov, but in fact, Pavlov was not Lieutenant.
In 1942, a group of our fighters under the command of Lieutenant Afanasyev held the defense in this house. Sergeant Pavlov seized the house, then the others pulled up - 24 fighters of nine nationalities, brought in weapons and ammunition. Soldiers have machine guns, machine guns in the basement, anti-tank rifles, a sniper, mortars. Both ours and the Germans dug trenches between the houses, for it was only possible to move along them. The house stands very well, facing the enemy. It is extremely inconvenient to advance from the side of the end, but to defend is, on the contrary, good.
It is not entirely clear how a sergeant could command the defense with a living lieutenant. But this does not change the essence of the matter - both sergeants and privates showed themselves in a proper way. An important point of defense was organized in the house and held from September 23 to November 25. German assault groups repeatedly tried to knock our soldiers out of the house and even seized the first floor, but they could neither rise higher, nor take the whole house. Tellingly, until the very beginning of our counteroffensive, civilians were sitting in the basement of the house. They also provided medical assistance to the soldiers.
Yakov Pavlov received the Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union for the defense of the house. During perestroika, the liberal scum "discovered the truth" - it turns out that the house was defended not only by Pavlov. It turns out that everyone else should also have been given a hero. In terms of liberal nits, people are fighting for awards. After all, one cannot fight for anything - well, for example, for the Motherland. In short, the standard moves of morons, which they never served. Yakov Pavlov himself wrote a book In Stalingrad, you can read it. He was the main one there, not the main one - there is no difference anymore. Stalingrad was not surrendered to the Germans, the house stood like a fortress.
Of course, according to good Russian tradition, our losses have not been calculated. Of course, the number of killed Germans has not been calculated either. However, Marshal Chuikov noted that the losses of the Germans from continuous assaults on Pavlov's house exceeded the losses of the Germans in the attack on Paris. It is no longer possible to make a record, but the ratio of forces during an offensive in a city is usually 7 to 1. That is, in order to destroy one defender, you need to use (and, possibly, lose) seven. And the feat of those who defended Pavlov's house in the Soviet mind was equal to the feat of the defenders of the Brest Fortress.
When, as a schoolboy, I came to Volgograd for the first time, I was very much surprised that Pavlov's house was rebuilt and people live in it. It was completely incomprehensible to the schoolboy why such a famous house was rebuilt and why people live in such a memorable place. It is clear to an adult that the whole city was being rebuilt anew, and Pavlov's house was not at all an exception. Everything that the Germans destroyed in Stalingrad had to be restored. And it was restored. And the house was equipped with two memorial walls from the ends.
Across the street from Pavlov's house there is a panoramic museum "Battle of Stalingrad". Built by the Soviet regime, seriously dilapidated, but still holding on.
Despite Khrushchev's diligent blotting out of any mention of Stalin, a number of structures are still equipped with quotes from the leader. By the way, in Berlin's Treptower Park the picture is similar, only there are much more citations.
To the side of the panorama building there is a small exposition of various military equipment. Soviet military equipment is simple and crude, no mega-design for you, no charm. Nevertheless, it was precisely such units, developed by totalitarian specialists, that smashed the combined forces of Europe into the trash and razed half of Berlin to the ground.
There is an extensive exposition inside the museum. The exposition is old, Soviet. It doesn't look very modern, but, nevertheless, it shows quite well what the Battle of Stalingrad was and how serious the enemy was.
The panorama itself is located above the museum and represents a composition of a circular painting and a subject foreground, such as real logs. Previously, panoramas were held in high esteem, built in many glorious places, usually battle scenes. In this section of the panorama of the Battle of Stalingrad, we see the columns of the Germans who surrendered.
The museum exhibits a lot of photographs. The photographs made the greatest impression: all ordinary faces of workers and peasants. What does everyone have - both the high command and ordinary soldiers. It was these people who withstood the monstrous battles, it was they who raised the country from ruins. Today's Russian intelligentsia calls them cattle and genetic trash.
There are exotic exhibits, such as a sword donated by the English king George to the inhabitants of Stalingrad. An explanation is attached to the sword: to the citizens of Stalingrad, strong as steel, from King George VI of Great Britain, as a sign of the deep admiration of the British people.
And the most striking thing is the portraits of the military command. It turns out that we did have a supreme commander in chief.
Everlasting memory!
