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Stalingrad: The Battle Begins

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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The City of Stalin's Name

The factory's been stamped with Stalin's name is because he defended it, didn't he, for a white rush? Yes, yes, against the white guards, against white Russians in the incredibly brutal civil war that took place between 1917 and 1990. The city is a Soviet, I mean, it's an old settlement, but it's a Soviet city, isn't it? And it's a product of the revolution. You wouldn't be fighting through gun factories and tractor factories and chemical plants, would you? You'd have come to the small town that was there before and hopped to... Veronier or any of these other places and just gone pfft, whatever.

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