Comments on: Perspectives: Stalingrad Foes Meet Again - November '97 World War II Feature

By: blarg

blarg — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:05:23 +0000

You ignore the role of the british and american leaders in starting the war, is that deliberate? Perhaps you should examine your own bias. The nazi's fought for germany and their race. What were the allies fighting for? Communism? The destruction of the west?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:20:05 +0000

I think in the midst of all the talk of the war and the Germans, (Which I don't mean to dismiss) the underlying point of this article is about the lack of graves in Russia, about the way they treat the memories. There are thousand of statues, a names, and monuments to this or that or the other. But the numbers, the untold millions of Soviet Citizens who died for Stalin's vision, on the battlefields of World War II, the in the Five year plans before, and to the paranoia afterwards.
How many of them have graves? How many living, breathing human people, have been obliterated by the March of Soviet progress? And how does Russia remember them today?

By: danvolodar

danvolodar — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:04:34 +0000

>We saw many massive monuments, but no graves.
There are thousands of graves in Russia (actually, European ex-Soviet Republics), some with names on them, some without. Mostly unnamed mass graves, though.
A lot of villages have monuments listing their fallen, and factories their former workers who never returned.
So a good part of this story is a lie.

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:37:00 +0000

Quite true, Derp. I was thinking of the German landser and teven officers when I wrote that. You are right, though. As a nation, Germany deserved what it received from the Russians. Still, when you consider individuals
, it is impossible not to pity the faate of German POWs at the end of the battle.s Anna.

By: Derp

Derp — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:22:45 +0000

I guess if you don't want to be left at the tender mercies of a terrible enemy, you shouldn't invade their homes, burn their cities, steal their possessions, and murder their families.

By: Les

Les — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:25:59 +0000

Looking for an interview of an (ordinary soldier) who made it back from the Russian prisons.Heard only 2% of stalingraders made it.What kind of man can live though such an ordeal.

By: Anita

Anita — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:29:20 +0000

Wow!!! Wonder if he came home a broken man or was still willing to tell stories about his extraordinary experience…

By: Richard zou

Richard zou — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:53:14 +0000

Amazing. The world really need peace.what went wrong.just ideas fighting and not people.

By: Sam Ryall

Sam Ryall — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:41:16 +0000

I enjoyed this story very much once I accepted it has having been very well rewritten into a professional short story format. The author has produced a highly emotive short story, but the flow of the dialogue is from an author's hands, not elderly ex-soldiers enemies' mouths. Nothing I say has anything to do with the Battle itself.

By: Anna L. V. J

Anna L. V. J — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:24:03 +0000

Power, i don't think Cliff was defending the Nazis as much as sympathizing with ordinary "landsers" or German GIs. Those German army soldiers were draftees, NOT volunteers as SS thugs were, and, as such, they went where they were told to go by their superiors. Soldiers don't make policy; they just follow it, so blaming them for NAZI crimes is . unfair. Just remember that in Britain, draftees could become "conscious objectors," but that option was not available in NAZI Germany . . .Any male who had the misfortune of being born in 1920's Germany was doomed to participate, willingly or not, in the war. Finally Cliff is no more ignorant of the war than the rest of us and that includes you! I agree with your assessment of the Russiancontribution in WWII, though. Anna.