First Brit Inside Stalingrad Grain Elevator for 65 years

First Brit inside Stalingrad Grain Elevator for 65 years
First Brit Inside Stalingrad Grain Elevator for 65 years From: bernie1709 | 20 July 2008 | 899 views August 2007 I was privileged to be a member of Jason Mark/ Michael Harwash tour of Stalingrad. During the tour our Russian organizer Evgeny Kulichenco managed to arrange for the grain elevator to be shut down, enabling our party to gain access. On the top floor of this building, I made a short video showing the inside, plus east & west, taken from the steel catwalks outside. I feel the top floor has changed very little in the past 65 years, you can form your own opinion how it must have been back in 1942. ... (more

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[silverdalesapphires]

This sounds like the wartime version of the Soviet National Anthem. before it was sanitised in 1977 by Brezhnev but it wasn't actually adopted until 1944...after Stalingrad.

[bernie1709]

This is correct,but I thought this piece of music fitting for this video. Bernie.

[bernie1709]

Thank you for your comments  bernie1709

[AlexeiVasilevich]

Interesting!

5 stars

[bernie1709]

Thank you for your rating bernie 1709

[vokuro88]

can't wait to blast my way in come RO2's release!

thanks for this video, thumbs up.

[xaal001]

thumb up if you are here because Red orchestra 2

[silverdalesapphires]

@bernie1709 Hi, it wasn't a criticism, just that I was trying to sing the words of the 'new' (1977) Soviet anthem (that I learnt on a language course in 1989 in Leningrad....I refuse to call it St Petersburg!) and they just didn't fit! Another good one is the Internationale (in Russian) of course by the Red Army chorus and orchestra if you have any more clips to put up.

[alexpampy]

@BattlefieldE3 It looks so poor because it was fucken bombarded and deserted.

[Badfish93]

@BattlefieldE3 Numbers, Winter, and generals who sometimes had good tactics. And the fact that the Germans were poorly equiped.

[BattlefieldE3]

Are these the winner?? damn they are so poor compare to German now! How in earth can you loose against bad army like that?

[2004DAZZA]

General Paulus chose this building as the symbol of Stalingrad in the arm badge he was having designed to commemorate victory. The few Russian defenders inflicted huge casualties on German troops before it finally fell.

[AkusherAndreyev]

Nice video!

Too bad they didn't preserve the original building in it's scarred condtition as a memorial to those brave 45 men who held it against all odds until the bitter end.

The city was renamed back to Volgagrad back in the 1950's