Volgograd

Volgograd, formerly called 'Tsaritsyn', (1589–1925) and known as Stalingrad  from 1925 to 1961, is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia.

The city became famous for its resistance, as well as the extensive physical damage and death toll it suffered during the Battle of Stalingrad against the German Army in World War II. Since February 2013, the city's name is to be commemorated as Stalingrad six days each year.

Volgograd in Days of Infamy
The city of Stalingrad was the site of a ferocious battle between the European Axis and the Soviet Union between late 1942, early 1943. The battle ended in victory for the soviets and they dealt the Germans a devastating defeat when they encircled the city and trapped their forces within.

Volgograd in "Joe Steele"
The Soviet city of Trotskygrad, named after Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, was subjected to a bloody battle that resulted in Germany's eventual defeat in World War II.

Volgograd in Southern Victory
The city of Tsaritsyn was where the Socialists made their last stand there before being crushed by the counterrevolutionary forces of Tsar Mikhail II towards the end of the Russian Civil War (1917-1926). Iosef Dzhugashvili, one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution who styled himself "Man of Steel", was among those killed in the battle.

Volgograd in The Disunited States of America
The city of Tsaritsyn was host to an intense and bloody battle during the War of the Three Emperors that leveled the whole city.

Volgograd in Worldwar
In 1944, while Lt. Mutt Daniels was discussing the Battle of Chicago with General George Patton, the General was comparing the advantages the Race had over the US Army was negated when they charged recklessly into the city, to the problems the Germans suffered in Russia when they began Babarossa in 1941.

He asked the Lieutenant a hypothetical question. If the Race hadn't come and the Germans broke through the Russian Army and reached city of Stalingrad, would they have made the same mistake the Race made in Chicago. Both men agreed the Germans wouldn't have been that stupid.

