The 5 bloodiest battles of the 20th century
The 20th Century wasn’t a bloody, violent century because there were more wars or more people around to fight them. One of the first wars of the century ushered in…
A Soviet soldier took on 50 Germans with grenades and an ax
Everyone knows the fighting on World War II’s eastern front was bitter and brutal but just how bitter and brutal can really only be seen in individual interactions between the…
The 5 worst modern battles to fight as a foot soldier
Let’s be clear — all battles suck for a foot soldier, even the smaller ones. But there were some in recent times that sucked more than others for the lowly grunt, with body counts piling up, bad commanders and leadership with a total lack of resp…
This building in Stalingrad became the Russian version of The Alamo in World War II
In the Battle of Stalingrad a group of 25 men in a nearly abandoned apartment held off thousands of German soldiers during nearly two months of fighting. Time and time again, the assaulting Nazi forces attacked the building occupied by Junior Sgt. Y…
The Army built this computer simulation of Stalingrad to teach its future leaders
It was one of the most devastating urban fights in history, inflicting nearly 2 million casualties and leaving a city in shambles.
For eight months
A meat-processing factory in the town of Shelanger in Russia’s Mari El Republic says it will soon start producing sausages named after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Local communist newspaper Golos Pravdy (Voice of the Truth) said on June 3, 2…Russian company to launch Stalin inspired sausages