Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed a decree to celebrate 75th anniversary of Nazi forces’ defeat by Soviet troops in the battle of Stalingrad. The corresponding document is published on the official website of the Kremlin.
Organizing committee headed by Vice President Dmitry Rogozin will be formed in the nearest future. The committee is aimed at formulating and approving activities connected to the anniversary, and then fulfilling the planned events. Stalingrad offensive operation by Soviet troops with the code name Uranium started November 18, 1942. It was performed by means of three front armies.
As a consequence of the counterattack, four enemy armies were surrounded and fully destroyed. Germans surrounded by Soviet soldiers were offered summons to surrender at the beginning of January 1943, but Hitler declined the offer. After a series of Red Army decisive attacks, the group of German troops centered in Stalingrad and its surroundings were defeated by February 2, 1943. More than 90 thousand Germans including the Sixth Army Commander Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus were taken prisoners.
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