70 years ago, the Nazi onslaught on the Russian city of Stalingrad was to be Hitler's strategy to complete the defeat of the Red Army. Yet within months, after desperate fighting for every street, every house and every room the Soviet forces completed an extraordinary encirclement of the Sixth Army. This was the beginning of the end for Hitler.
Design based on medal 'The Order of the Great Patriotic War'. This was awarded to all who fought in the Soviet forces to defeat Nazism on the Eastern Front. The numbers awared gives an idea of the scale of the battle to defeat Hitler; 9,175,595.
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