An exhibition dedicated to the Battle of Stalingrad is being prepared in France, TASS reports. It will open on April 25 in Normandy. The exposition will take place at the memorial in honor of the landings of Allied forces.
According to the head of the Volgograd branch of the Russian Military Historical Society Viktor Vasilevsky, the Normandy landings became possible only after the victory in Stalingrad. This fact is worth recalling so that there are no attempts to rewrite history.
The opening of the exhibition is timed to the day of the meeting on the Elbe. On April 25, Soviet and American troops met near Torgau, as a result, the Wehrmacht forces were split into two parts.
About a hundred exhibits will be handed over to France from Volgograd Panorama Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad, including uniforms, personal items and ammunition of Soviet soldiers and officers. Weapons of that era will also be brought to the Normandy museum. Some episodes of the Battle of Stalingrad will be restored at the exposition.
The 75th anniversary of the Stalingrad Battle was celebrated at the state level in 2018.
The Stalingrad offensive of the Soviet troops (codenamed Operation Uranus) began on November 19, 1942. By February 2, 1943, a group of German troops concentrated in Stalingrad and its environs defeated. Almost a hundred thousand Germans, including Field Marshal Paulus, surrendered.
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