The current fighting is in the Donbass region, site of [Mamiya Hill] and the [https://mamayevkurgan.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/monument-to-the-liberators-of-the-donbass-donetsk-ukraine/ Monument to the Liberators of the Donbass, Donetsk, Ukraine] commemorating the victory at [[Stalingrad]]. Hitler chose this ethnically mixed region to exploit anti-Russian sentiment and bet the farm on the outcome of the war. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC4fE6sm4r8 Here's a Soviet era film narrated by Burt Lancaster taped on Mamiya Hill] (well worth watching). A week ago [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPtqlo78LVA Russian TV announced the monument is being restored.] Here's the [http://www.russianswords.com/Stalin-english.htm Sword of Stalingrad being presented to Stalin by Churchill and FDR] at the [[Teheran Conference]]. The Sword is depicted in Europe's tallest monument on Mamiya Hill. | The current fighting is in the Donbass region, site of [Mamiya Hill] and the [https://mamayevkurgan.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/monument-to-the-liberators-of-the-donbass-donetsk-ukraine/ Monument to the Liberators of the Donbass, Donetsk, Ukraine] commemorating the victory at [[Stalingrad]]. Hitler chose this ethnically mixed region to exploit anti-Russian sentiment and bet the farm on the outcome of the war. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC4fE6sm4r8 Here's a Soviet era film narrated by Burt Lancaster taped on Mamiya Hill] (well worth watching). A week ago [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPtqlo78LVA Russian TV announced the monument is being restored.] Here's the [http://www.russianswords.com/Stalin-english.htm Sword of Stalingrad being presented to Stalin by Churchill and FDR] at the [[Teheran Conference]]. The Sword is depicted in Europe's tallest monument on Mamiya Hill. |