The Fight in Russia’s Bone-Chilling Winters
Commander of Stalingrad Front, Soviet general Andrey Yeryomenko (R) and Nikita Khrushchev (L) in 1942 in Stalingrad, Russia. Battle of Stalingrad, one of the major and strategically decisive battles of World War II, during which Nazi Germany forces fought the Soviet Union for control of the Soviet city of Stalingrad from August 23, 1942, till February 2, 1943. (Photo by Laski Diffusion/Getty Images)
As brutal Russia’s winter began, Germans fail to fight in the weather they were not accustomed to. Later, the German general abandons all efforts to relieve the under-pressured, and the drained forces get trapped in Stalingrad.