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Churchill: ‘It is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army’

The pivotal role of the Red Army and sacrifices of the Russian people in the defeat of Nazi Germany must never be forgotten, writes DR DYLAN MURPHY

DEEP SYMBOLISM: The fountain Children's Round Dance on Station Square survived almost intact the Battle of Stalingrad. Pic: Sergey Strunnikov (1907-1944)/CC

“LITTLE, perhaps nothing, of the experience of most Western readers and historians will have prepared them for what they will find in the history of Russia’s War,” wrote Professor Richard Overy.

The Soviet Union’s war against German fascism and its allies lasted four years and took an immense toll on the people of the Soviet Union with over 27 million soldiers and civilians killed.

As Overy notes: “The cost of the war dwarfed the sacrifices of any other fighting power.”

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