Inside Stalingrad (Volgograd) Russia. The story of heroes. 🇷🇺
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2022
- Volgograd (Stalingrad), Russia, is a city with an Incredible history. The city is famous around the world under its former name, Stalingrad. Stalingrad, was home to the bloodiest battle of World War 2 and one of the most tragic in history. The events of Stalingrad changed the course of the entire war and he victory at Stalingrad energised the Red Army and shifted the balance of power in the favour of the Soviets. However, with over 2 million deaths, the events the took place in and around this city left a scar on the World.
Modern day Volgograd is a lovely city and a wonderful example of Soviet (post-ww2) city planning. We spent 2 days exploring this beautiful city in the heart of European Russia.
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This Russian city has a dark history... (Volgograd, Russia) 🇷🇺
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Ребята, вы делаете большую работу , показывая не только для нас эту планету, места, красоту природы, но и показываете Россию для зарубежных зрителей канала. Мы все одинаковы, не смотря , что нас разделяет другой\разный язык общения. Спасибо Вам и удачи в путешествиях по необъятной планете Земля.
Спасибо большое Максим, это для нас очень многое значит ❤️
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I agree with you 100% . I want to visit Russia one day in the Summer that is.👍👍🍺🍺
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@@callumanthonysullivan9072 really, you want to visit muredrers and kidnappers? State of slaves?
Im a german and i personally find it important to learn about these things. Im not personally to blame for what germany did, but I am responsible for making sure it is never repeated
Lol your name exposes you mate... no way you're german Omar...
@@_NCO I was born and raised in Germany. I consider myself german. If you have a different opinion, then I simply dont care
Yeah, ,,Zerarka" is no German name, either...you shouldn't feel responsible for anything Germany did in the past because your ancestors weren't even there.
lol what a pathetic comment
@@IllegalPlayer275Buddy your not ethnically german. U just live there
Thank you for this video.
Russian people do not need to be explained that the war is the most terrible tragedy. The Soviet people have been to hell, survived and returned to peace. Putin does not want to attack Ukraine. Russians can only defend their Homeland, but not attack other countries.
i wish peace to everyone and hope one day i can visit russia
Это - НАША, ИСТОРИЯ🤗
I am Russian and I know most people don't want the war. But somehow Ukrainian borders were changed in 2014.... So as Georgian in 08 and 93. And somehow Grozny was obliterated by heavy Russian shelling. Let's think about that.
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Мой родной город, город-герой Волгоград. Спасибо за прекрасное видео!)
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Официальная церемония освобождения концлагеря Маутхаузен 15 мая в этом году пройдет без послов России и Беларуси; организаторы попросили их не участвовать в церемонии из-за войны России против Украины, сообщает портал ежедневной газеты Der Standard. Убийц мирных жителей, насильников и воров на торжества не приглашают. искать фашистов дома
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Это мой родной город. Мои Прадеды под Сталинградом пали.
Дядя моей матери там погиб.
Wow...the whole room went quiet when I put this video on. Laptops and phones were ignored for a while. A very poignant and moving start. No matter what 'side' anyone fought on or which country they fought for, today, in the 21st century, we should honour, respect and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Brilliant video as usual guys.
Thank you so much Paul, really appreciate it ❤️
it actually does matter which side people fought for. One side was trying to exterminate people
Thank you for your story on Stalingrad. As an ignorant westerner, I have learned so much from your stories, and I hope you continue to inform and entertain us - the sad lot who don't get to travel.
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Great history lesson. Wonderful memorial. Must be beautiful in the spring and summer. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it Fred 🥰❤️
I only had a vague idea about the Battle so I had to look it up after this vlog. What a terrible, horrible time. Thanks for the education. And your room was so nice it would be hard to leave it.
So glad you enjoyed it and found it insightful Pat 🥰❤️
I have watched countless Stalingrad documentaries and I never get tired of them. It's a city that saw immense human suffering and loss of life but good to see how it was nicely rebuilt considering all that stood there were rubbles and chimneys. Some European cities that weren't destroyed as badly still carry scars from the war.
Without the heroic defense of this great city ww2 would have lost. This is the apex of heroism. I salute the brave men and women
thank you - I love when you tell us the history of the places you visit - and you do it with such respect and empathy
Thank you so much Kate 😊
Thanks from INDIA.So much to learn from your wonderful Vlogs from RUSSIA and its history .
So glad you enjoyed it Raghav 🥰
Thank you for taking us to see such a beautiful, moving monument, such a terrible, incomprehensible time in history. So much suffering. Russia has so much to offer for travellers
So glad you enjoyed it Alison ❤️
Two of my great-grandfathers participated in this battle. I'm so proud of them
I love your channel. You both epitomise everything that is good in this world. Your humour your approach and your neutrality is not easy to achieve but your make it look so effortless. Your comment about how we were taught history in the uk is so true and is also so sad given our proximity to the Eastern Europe. I can’t even get close to understanding the suffering of the Slavic people over the last 100 years. What’s happening at the moment is absolutely braking my heart. Timothy Snyder makes a very interesting point, history in the west is always moving westwards. The Greeks the Romans Central Europe the British empire and now American history. Stalingrad was a moment in history of heroism suffering and the pointless and horror of war. I pray we are not soon going to repeat this lesson again. Another great video.
Really appreciate it Chris 🥰❤️
First of all, how beautiful and sad it was to go when it was lightly snowing?! Those snow flakes coming down in that memorial was so beautiful but brought a tear to me. The second world war is super sensitive to me because im both Russian and German. I went to the Russian memorial in Berlin in the tiergarten. I was looking for it going through that park but couldn’t find it, and then all of a sudden this huge curtain of sad energy hit me. I kept walking a little further and thats when i saw the monument and then i realized why i felt such sadness. Found out that that place also served as a mass grave. I definitely could feel it and I totally cried there. The only other time that has ever happened to me is when i went to ground zero at the World Trade Center in new york at the monument there. I could really feel their energy. I feel like if i went to that monument i would tear up there too. Not only because of that but also because of how beautiful and impressive that monument is. Hopefully i can go this summer. Thank you for the beautiful video ❤️.
Thank you so much for your comment Jeremy ❤️❤️❤️
Harriet was there when it was Stalingrad back in the 70's. during the Soviet Union Era . An Interesting video. Thank you for taking us along. Jim and Harriet . Richmond, Va.
Wow! So glad you enjoyed it guys 🥰 Lots of love to you both ❤️
Russia is really a hidden gem! Most people just think Moscow or St Petersburg, which both look amazing, but there’s so much more to Russia
People who scold the Russian education system, read it! And then tell our system thank you, at least for the fact that we have geography in our schools!
It really is 🥰
@@user-iz9ge9xy1u ты позор человечества. русские совершили трагическое нападение на вокзал в Краматорске. Более 30 мирных жителей погибли в ожидании эвакуации.
@@Dd-xl1vz this attack to Kramotorsk was by the rocket "Точка У". These are very outdated rockets from 80th. Russian army does not have it at all. Only Ukrainian army has it. The direction of the attack shows that this rocket was lanched from 120 km away to the East (Ukrainian army is there). Local people report that the day before the city goverment annonced evacuation at exactly his time - the time of the attack. Nazi... they are just real nazi
@@user-iz9ge9xy1u Poor girl infected by russian fascists
Wow... Incredible. This is why I love following you guys, Ive learned about this place. I know the history and now for the first time I get to see it and its people. Thank you
Thank you so much Zach! Really appreciate it!!! 🥰❤️
Not a dark story, but a HEROIC one.
12 апреля СБУ опубликовала запись, на которой, как сообщается, слышен фрагмент перехваченного телефонного разговора российского военнослужащего с женой Собеседники: 27-летний Роман Быковский и Ольга Быковская из Орловского района на западе России. По данным журналистов, семья проживает в аннексированном Крыму. Женщина призналась в телефонном интервью, что ее муж находился в Севастополе, получил ранение и был доставлен в военный госпиталь. Журналисты подчеркивают, что голоса обоих собеседников звучали как на записи СБУ.
It’s definitely dark, man.
Such amazing history! You are so right Matt about history in school. Now I, much older than you guys but in the states we never learned how devastating it was over there. The eternal flame and the soldiers gave me chills! Another fabulous video! Thank you
Dark history? Did you mean to say a history of exceptional heroism and bravery and endurance?
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Я в шоке. Темная история у средневековой Англии. У рабовладения в США, у нацистской Германии. У режима в Камбодже.
@@Victorya-si7fx the whole world had a dark history
I would say 2 million citizens dying is dark not wonderful
Absolutely agree with all of those points, the bravery shown by those incredible men and women is unimaginable. Stalingrad is 100% a history of exceptional heroism and bravery also, the fact that 2 million people died means that is also a dark, horrific and heartbreaking story
Thank you for another great story/video. Please keep up the good work. Stalingrad is a city everyone should visit at least once in their lives.
Music choice on this video is fantastic - I now want to visit Volgograd
Remark. The music in the Hall Of Glory is an actual music, it plays there in reality.
Thank you so much! It is a beautiful city 🥰
How incredible to stumble on this channel after my Mother’s recommendation! Julia you were one of my favorite contestants from GBB show. I often run your words through my head, “proper Siberian!”, when I bake something stout. Haha. 😂 I look forward to spending some time getting to know your content.
Thank you so much Ashley, really appreciate it 🥰
Wonderful filming and commentary.
Thank you so much ❤️
This seems to be a very interesting place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!
Thanks for showing the memorial grounds in such a respectful manner. The weather enhanced the somber mood of your video. It caused me to ask myself the eternal and unanswerable question, "when will we ever learn"? The answer is "blowing in the wind". 🤔🙏🌎
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Я живу в Волгограде....спасибо!
Пожалуйста! Любим ваш город ❤️
Я тоже из Волгограда . В Бекетовке .
Another great video! I knew about Stalingrad but your vlog helps me to understand much better everything that happened. I had seen photos of The Motherland Calls sculpture but had never seen the inside of the monument, impressive. Another city to add to my wish list !!
In another order of things, the "Independent Woman" does not seem to handle the seat very well....haha
I also envy the climate that you have over there, instead of the hot and humid summer here in Buenos Aires
Hope the drone recovers from the fall !! till the next video, by by
Thank you so much Alejandro 🥰
I want just to point out that is not really Stalins fault that so many civilians were killed in Stalingrad. First you have to know that you simply can't evacuate every city when the enemy comes near it, because it usually happened too fast in WW2, and also you need all railroads and all kind of transport for the army needs. If you start to transport the civilians instead of military you will simply loose the battle and the war. It's a brutal tradeoff, but you have to make the choice if you want to win the war. In case of Stalingrad there were about 4 strong defensive rings around the city, and the soviets have not expected the city to be taken, but the Nazis broke through so fast that the defenders were not able to man them in time. The city was overcrowded with refugees from the west, and before the Nazis attacked Stalingrad from the ground they actually did an air attack with a huge bomber fleet and have bombed the city into the ground. They knew that there are a lot of civilians but they did not care, this was a war crime, and it was the biggest bomber attack an the eastern front so far! So it's very strange for me when I hear the Germans complain about allied air raids on German cities because they have started this with Stalingrad! Surely the soviets did a lot of mistakes, but it were the Nazis who knowingly killed these people. It's just not right to take this blame from them.
Thank You sir, finally a reasonable point ! That reflects conclusions that our modern history community came to by present time.
Please stop whitewashing Stalin. This doesn't help understand our history.
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You should read slowly and carefully what I have wrote. It has nothing to do with whitewashing Stalin.
@@AndreasConfirmed it is kind of you to worry about my reading abilities but I stand by my words.
Stalin's order of July 1942 "Not a Step Back" is generally considered as a ban on orderly evacuation, including civilian evacuation. See historian T.Pavlova's research "The classified tragedy of civilian population of Stalingrad."
More generally, treating people as expendable is a characteristic of Stalin's regime, manifested in countless episodes including Stalingrad. So technical difficulties of the evacuation is a valid point but saying that effectively locking people in the city (including elderly, disabled etc) is not really Stalin's fault is whitewashing.
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My problem is that the Nazis killed 27 million people in USSR, but some people try to blame their dead on Stalin. Maybe because they sympathize with the Nazis, or maybe because they hate Stalin or Russia beyond any reason. What kind are you? Do you think the Nazis have done something wrong?
Volgograd is a place that I must visit in my lifetime, a true soul place. Yes the English schooling only teaches one narrative, so we’re left to figure out and understand the real world the hard way. Thank you so much for the wonderful experience and sharing your journey. 🙏😊
Understanding it the hard way is the only way of really understanding it my friend.
Beautiful video... the piece on the memorial was moving and presented with so much respect and compassion. I love the train station, full of character (like so many others in Russia). Absolute cruelty you subjected Julia to with those train seats Matt; no, extra pancakes would have made no difference.. 🥲😁
So glad you enjoyed it Johan 🥰 Hahaha, actually I reckon an extra pancake would have had me in the good books right away 😀
Your videos are so incredible, poignant and timely. Thank you so much for how much time you both spend putting these videos together. I appreciate all your work.
Thank you so much 🤗
Enjoyable video! A nice glimpse of Volgograd, I wish you could have spent more time there.
You and us both 😘
A friend took a party of 15 yr old girls from their school to Belgium and visited a WW1 cemetery. Row of row of memorials of men who were killed but would have been of dating age to the group. Lots of tears. Even 100+ years later.
Lest we forget ❤️
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Фамилия норм 😂
Absolutely cracked it again, super video , great friendly happy go lucky couple, super giggler, Matts super husky voice. Well worth watching, enjoy the knowledge, take care guys, look forward to the next vid.. 10 out 10 😉
Thank you so much John! Really appreciate it ❤️❤️❤️
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GOD Bless all the Defenders of Stalingrad
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Это была величайшая битва за всю историю человечества.
Согласен ❤️
Thanks. Loved the video, although there were some sad parts. Let’s hope there are no further wars
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Amazing, informative video, so many interesting and impressive sights! Love you, you are nice people!
Thank you so much Bernhard ❤️
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Great video, Thank you.
Matt and Julia…….the two of you present Russia better than any ‘two-bit’ travel program ever could……….up close and personal. Thanking You for your excellent videos. Be Safe, My Friends……….You Are Loved.🤜🤛 By the way, Julia, made any snails lately? 😂🤣
Thank you so much Dennis 🥰❤️🐌
I learned about Stalingrad in primary school. Churchill was constantly on about how important it was.
2 million died in the city? Aint that supposed to be the most haunted city in the world?
Sad. The atmosphere of silence which is palpable speaks of stories unwriiten waiting for closure. My prayers for those millions who perished and peace be accorded to them by Our creator : God. Wish there will be no more wars , its not worth to humanity
It could have been more beautiful place if war didnt take place on that place.
Again Thank You Julia & Matt!!!
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Dark is not the most appropriate term when applied to a shining example of bravery and sacrifice.
Hi Matt and Julia thank you for the wonderful video. Volgograd is in my bucket list for the History andI want to have lunch at Rio's restaurant and enjoy the view and the food. Sochi is beautiful and a summer thing to do for sure. Keep on living the dream guys. Love to you both
Marcio.
при всем уважении, говоря о эвакуации населения, лучше опираться на документы. а не на мифы о Сталинских злодеяниях. with all due respect, when talking about the evacuation of the population, it is better to rely on documents. and not on myths about Stalin's atrocities.
Даже о Гитлере столько мифов и сказок не насочиняли.
I don't think everything about Stalin was true i try to gather information from all sides an on every front of the war. But Stalin was a bad guy. He did purge his own army before the start of the war an he did kill millions of his own people.
The one thing that bothers me about WW2 is how little Russians know about the war besides what happened on the eastern front. Most don't even know Japan was in the war an the wars fought on the western an southern front like Northern Africa. The US killed around 2.3 million Japanese soldiers in major sea battles an island hopping. Another thing is about the lend-lease an how much supplies the US sent the Russians an how much it helped them turn the war around for them.
The U.S. mobilized about the same number of troops as Russia but fought on more major front lines - not only in Europe but also in the Pacific and North Africa. American war production - its ability to churn out astounding numbers of bombers, tanks and warships - was possibly the key war-winning factor, say some historians, who point out American factories produced more airplanes than all of the other major war powers combined.
“We were lucky to have America as an ally,” Russian historian Anatoly Razumov told VOA recently. He said American technology and supplies formed the base of Russia’s war effort. “And we want to close our eyes to that. It’s shameful! Sometimes I talk to ordinary people who don’t want to understand. We were together during the war. How would it be if we hadn’t had this help? It was not a victory of just one country over Hitler. It was a victory of the whole world over him.”
United States provided the Soviet Union with more than 400,000 jeeps and trucks, 14,000 aircraft, 8,000 tractors and construction vehicles, and 13,000 battle tanks.
Under Lend-Lease, the United States provided more than one-third of all the explosives used by the Soviet Union during the war. The United States and the British Commonwealth provided 55 percent of all the aluminum the Soviet Union used during the war and more than 80 percent of the copper.
Lend-Lease also sent aviation fuel equivalent to 57 percent of what the Soviet Union itself produced. Much of the American fuel was added to lower-grade Soviet fuel to produce the high-octane fuel needed by modern military aircraft.
The Lend-Lease program also provided more than 35,000 radio sets and 32,000 motorcycles. When the war ended, almost 33 percent of all the Red Army's vehicles had been provided through Lend-Lease. More than 20,000 Katyusha mobile multiple-rocket launchers were mounted on the chassis of American Studebaker trucks.
In addition, the Lend-Lease program propped up the Soviet railway system, which played a fundamental role in moving and supplying troops. The program sent nearly 2,000 locomotives and innumerable boxcars to the Soviet Union. In addition, almost half of all the rails used by the Soviet Union during the war came through Lend-Lease.
The Lend-Lease program also sent tons of factory equipment and machine tools to the Soviet Union, including more than 38,000 lathes and other metal-working tools. Such machines were of higher quality than analogues produced in the Soviet Union, which made a significant contribution to boosting Soviet industrial production.
American aid also provided 4.5 million tons of food, 1.5 million blankets, and 15 million pairs of boots.
"In order to really assess the significance of Lend-Lease for the Soviet victory, you only have to imagine how the Soviet Union would have had to fight if there had been no Lend-Lease aid," Sokolov wrote. "Without Lend-Lease, the Red Army would not have had about one-third of its ammunition, half of its aircraft, or half of its tanks. In addition, there would have been constant shortages of transportation and fuel. The railroads would have periodically come to a halt. And Soviet forces would have been much more poorly coordinated with a constant lack of radio equipment. And they would have been perpetually hungry without American canned meat and fats."
Stalin even said that without American machines we would of lost the war.
@@jokerj641 "he did kill millions of his own people" You already lied in your first paragraph.
Lend Lease is just a robbery. Americans got rich on someone else's grief.
I did not read your nonsense further.
@@jokerj641 It is amazing to try to tell the Russians how little they know about history based on false fiction and juggling of facts.
In Russia, the archives relating to the period of WWII are completely open, and the electronic library with millions of copies of documents has been sorted into episodes by thousands of historians and caring people and continues to be replenished with new digitized copies from the archive. Here they honor the memory of their ancestors and many are fond of the history of not only the Great War, but enough schoolchildren will be named from memory of the commanders in North Africa, as well as the main events in the Pacific regions.
Remind you that in the entire campaign in the Pacific, the maximum concentration of US forces was in the operation on Okinawa, where a landing force of 180,000 American infantrymen was landed? And all the more surprising, how could a US patriot forget about the events from August 9 to 14, 1945, which took place in the Far East of the USSR and Northern China? The Kwantung Army of Japan, numbering 1.2 million soldiers, was just blew off when the USSR entered the war with a 1.7 million army transferred from Europe in 3 months.
Or you can tell me how it happened that supplies from the USA, Canada and Great Britain increased only after the Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, after a radical turning point in the war. In 1942, the USSR received 27.6% of all lend-lease, and in 1943-1945 - 71.5%. Or do you have a patriotic explanation of how it happened that the Eastern Front, where the Nazi command concentrated 85% of the German army, received $ 11.3 billion (27.6%) from the entire Lend-Lease, and Great Britain - $ 31.4 billion (69%).
At the same time, no one in Russia denies that the help of the allies was necessary, useful and significant. They really contributed to the victory over fascism, but we always remember that it was achieved with the sweat and blood of the courageous Soviet people.
Let me remind you of the words of Harry Truman at the end of the war - “Of course, the money spent on Lend-Lease saved many American lives. Each Russian, English or Australian soldier who received Lend-Lease equipment and went into battle proportionally reduced the dangers of war for our own youth ... "
I recently came across a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Studs Terkel, The War of Rights. The author is frank: “For most Americans, the war turned out to be entertainment. I'm not talking about those unfortunates who lost their sons and daughters ... For everyone else, it was a damn good time ... ".
P.S. And it is very desirable to understand what values you are comparing in order to compare the size of lend-lease - economists estimate the total amount of allied assistance from 4 to 9% of the USSR's GDP.
@@AlexVodolagin Every country has archives of what happened not just Russia lol. An a lot of what i said come from Russian people or part of the Soviet Union. An no not many Russians know anything about stuff that happened besides of the eastern front. I have many friends that live in Moscow an St. Petersburg.
The apartments for rent in Russia really fake me out. The curb appeal, entry, and stair wells are ugly, but many of the apartments are fantastic. The Volgograd memorial and the train station are awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it 🥰❤️
Откуда эти глупости про желание Сталина держать в заложниках население города, чтобы родня лучше сражалась. И какие могли быть работающие заводы, при таких боях в городе..
Ноги у этой городской легенды растут из книги Энтони Бивора "Сталинград" 1998 где он не приводя никаких документов пишет в стиле "а вот люди говорят...". Наше замечательное тв позже сняло "док фильм" Непобежденные где повторило эту бездоказательную чепуху опять таки не приводя никакие источники. Ну и у диссидентов по кухням ходил из уст в уста такой ужастик в стиле пионерских сказок про "красную руку" и "гроб на колесиках" как кровавый Сталин велел никого не выпускать.... На самом деле более-менее документально подтверждается только запрет штабу военного округа переместиться в Астрахань. Заводы были по большей части 23 августа приведены в негодность силами Люфтваффе.
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@@user-pw6mr4xc9t Это очень старая и больная тема, которая активно поднимается в западных медиа каждый раз когда там пишут о Сталинграде. Дескать, русские конечно победили ценой огромных потерь, но эти потери они сами себе и нанесли - ну и дальше по накатанной: "Сталин запретил эвакуацию", "одна винтовка на троих", "заградотряды стреляли в спину", "несчастных фашистов голодом уморили в котле, а потом так их мучили в плену, что никто оттуда не вернулся".... В общем, часто приходится устраивать англоязычным товарищам "разбор полетов" с указанием на конкретные ошибки, а то и откровенные передергивания.
@@user-ep6kh5iy7w В программе" жди меня "за 31.01.2020 была встреча двух сестер, им уже за 90 лет. Меня потряс их рассказ, они коренные жители Сталинграда, рассказывают, что происходило в те дни когда начали бомбить заводы, их эвакуировали, но они потерялись на всю жизнь и нашлись только в 20 году. Это не документы, это рассказ обычных горожан, эвакуация была организована, но внезапность бомбардировки внесла хаос. Смотрела на встречу этих бабушек и ревела, сколько горя принесли нацисты в жизнь Советского народа, всякие зарубежные писатели они даже опираясь на документы никогда не смогут понять всей трагедии той войны,и осветить что же тогда происходило.
Это наша история, и неприятные ее факты мы также должны знать
Peace on earth, and good will towards all. Thank you for showing us more about Russia. The more we all know of each other the more we will appreciate how much we can all enrich each other's lives. You're a pair of sweet, perceptive nerds; like my wife and I were when we were your age, and still are now, as we enter our 60's. Don't change a single thing about yourselves. Thank you for your innocence and your brave stand on simply showing the world.
Hay Guy's I learn something new all the time watching your vlogs.....Thank you
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The Motherland Calls statue in Volgograd is the most badass and the most beautiful modern-era statue that I've ever saw in my entire life. The heroes of the Soviet Union and the modern-day Russia deserved this.
As an Indonesian, I want to see peace between Russia & Ukraine
I love your videos and admire you both so much! I truly appreciate the history, the videography, the culture, the people, the food and markets, the knowledge y'all put in your travel vlogs that make them so pleasant to watch. I also love y'alls sense of humor and just seeing y'all enjoying the moments with each other, your other half, your better half, your soulmate, your spouse! 😁🥰🥰👫❤❤ Our 36th wedding anniversary is on April 3, a week from now, and I turned 55 today! 😁🎂🎈🎉
The 3 room suite y'all stayed in looked awesome! The layout, the space, the cabinets, the bathroom setup, the lighting, the decor, everything looked awesome 😁😍 It's just too bad that you couldn't spend more time there to truly enjoy the suite longer, like 2 or 3 days
Это не люкс , это обычная квартира , которую сдают посуточно.
"big ass gross snakes" haha. So funny. Thanks for another great video. I love learning the extra history because like you said Matt we really don't learn a lot of that in the west!
Haha, so glad you enjoyed it 🥰
brilliant vlog again love from uk
Hello alina i want friendship with you from pakistan.
Thank you 😊
Nice information
Спасибо за выпуск . Как будто дома побывал . Кто то из вас из Волгограда ?
Спасибо Владимир! Я из Кемерово ))
Philippines love Russia ♥️....Big fan from Manila here.
Heroes of Stalingrad🌹
matt what was that pancake thing you was eating looked the nuts mate another great episode loveto you both steve
It was a ‘lasagne crepe’ 😀
Amazing vloggers
Love your channel, you two are an amazing sweet couple who deal with everything with a smile! God bless!
Спасибо за визит! я живу в волгограде 🇷🇺😁
16:53 коня на скаку не было, решила сломать стопор 🤣😂 There was no running horse, so she decided to crush a lock
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Good and interesting video thanks.
I respect your educational activities! But, as a Russian, who lost many relatives in this war or went missing, I want to ask you to rely on documents when covering historical events, and not on your evaluative opinion. In particular, numerous horror stories about Stalin. The past era should be treated with respect, and not judged down the years passed. Good luck in your work and all the best from Russia.
The problem is that the West always finds people, like for instance Solženjicin, who propagate these insane numbers of Stalin's victims, whilst Russian historians have done the exact scientific studies showing that the numbers stated by him are not as nearly as correct. Besides, there is no math logic in his numbers. According to him , Stalin killed around 50% of USSR population?!?!
The serial killer Stalin is not someone's "evaluative opinion". It's a fact known to most Russians.
Each side would fight hard day and night, even for just a room, a floor, or a building. The battle of Stalingrad is the best example of just how brutal urban combat can be. It was also the best example of total war, where neither side gave any quarter or mercy to their enemy, you’ll never ever find a battle on a scale like this today, thank God for that.
I give my respects to both sides. Not all Wehrmacht soldiers were fanatic murderers, and not all Soviet soldiers were saints. It is best to view history equally from both sides so that we may learn from it and move on, and not to judge it. Because history is for us to learn from, not to judge, for we were not there, so we do not have the right or the reason to judge. The judgement is for the veterans of WW2, and this applies to all wars.
grad means city handy to know thanks matt
Спасибо ребята🤜🤛😁👍Волгоград!
been there 3 times. always moving.Churchill said it tore the guts out of German army. met vets from then. Rightious. Their honor guard is equal of US old guard.
Matt that was so naughty with the seat. The monument of the woman was awesome . Stay safe 😘
Thank you so much Carole! 🥰
Where in Russia isn't there a dark history. Heck not just Russia the entire world had a dark history
Indeed
Guys, i understand that you did not want to insult us. But please, western opinion about WW2 is highly influenced by cold war propaganda. Many people gave good and reasonable coments, read them.
With respect and i wish you a luck. :)
As a Russian who is very familiar with Putin's propaganda, I read some critical comments above and didn't find them reasonable or educated.
Fun fact: Volgograd sits at below sea level in elevation. I don't know what exact elevation but this partly contribute to hotter temperature during summer.
Жарко , потому что Волгоград зона степи и полупустыни . Очень жарко летом , особенно когда идет ветер с Казахстанской пустыни .
I am always bewildered by the people knowing exactly what Stalin"s plans and thoughts were,.
오, 너무나 많은 눈물, 나는 당신을 위해 울고 있습니다! 평화와 사랑이 우리 모두를 하나로 묶어 주시기를 빕니다.
Hi, Matt and Julia! I write this comment in English, because your channel is more focused on an English-speaking audience. And at this point I would like (this is my personal opinion and not a reproach at all) to say that you are an English-Russian couple, then I would like to see more Russian in your videos. Not everyone knows or understands English well enough to understand what you, Julia or Matt are saying. At least my level allows me to understand this. I myself do not know English so well, for me the main and favorite language is German. But I return to the topic of the video. It was very nice to see your video about Volgograd, since I am Russian myself and live in Volgograd. With best regards, Ed Samitov
This battle alone eclipsed the whole effort in the West from DDay to Berlin. The scale and scope is simply staggering. A testament to the Russian nation which will last forever.
You get emotional when you enter this city as its soil is soaked in blood with many heros. And that was turning point in world war 2 as it's Hitlers greatest 1st defeat and tides turned with winter.
She's so majestic and beautiful!
Interesting history xx
I travelled to Volgagrad in 2009, my wish was t o see a german war cemetery in Russia, I flew to Beijing from Sydney then train to Moscow. Flew to Volgograd. I saw all of those places you went to including the Motherland statue and the memorial to the million casualties, heroes of the Soviet Union.
я никогда не видел этого, того, что внутри храма погибшим воинам, там где каменная рука дернжит горящий факел. и где почетный караул как на красной площади. никогда не видел за 46 лет своей жизни
Namaste 🙏 . How are you . From India🇮🇳 🇷🇺
Peace. ❤
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12: 21 That lord Ganesha image made me smile
1:33 Dear Matt and Julia I'm quite thankful to You for showing our "places of spirit" to people from around the Globe. However your content would only benefit from adressing to some documents when making such strong statements like " civilians were left in Stalingrad on Stalin's orders". Of course I guess this was an unintentional mistake or an errancy. As you probably know since 2000-s great work is being done by our historian community along with so-called " archive revolution" - constant process of declassification WWII-period documents. Up to this very day there wasn't found any document or any other evidence of Stalin or any other Soviet state agency issuing an order forbidding evacuation from Stalingrad either for need of keeping factories working ( actually after Luftwaffe's barbarian bombardment on 23-rd August there wasn't much left of a factories to work) or mythic reason that "army doesn't defend empty city". Most careful study of roots of such statement leads only to three sources: 1. A.Beavour's book "Stalingrad" in which he doesn't adress to any documents his sources are usually named as "one eyewitness said...", 2. Russian TV's "documentary" Undefeated ( Непобежденные) which also lacks any documents, 3. Grigory Pomerantz - soviet dissident and philosopher. Talking of real reasons of presence of high numbers of civilians in the city by the day of devastating bombardment we can mark objective factors: 1. Stalingrad was important evac point where a lot of fugitives ran to from occupied Southern Regions, 2. lack of means of transportation and priority given to military logistics and 3. Situation changed very quickly for local authorities - in their reports since end of July they were sure that Germans would be held by Don (however NKVD issued some concern that presence of lots of children and elderly people was disturbing military preparations) but then all of a sudden on 21-st of August Nazis broke through and on 23-rd of August Luftwaffe attemted a Tokyo-style bombardment with creating an artificial fire storm destroying mostly wooden city and killing up to 90 000 people and the same day Nazis reached Volga. So development of situation to a catastrophic happened very quickly - just in 2-3 days.
2 milion, thats the entire popuation of my homeland. Russia payd terible price for wining the battle for Stalingrad/Volgograd.
Matt buddy, Julia,s jokes are merciless. ( "Matt,s office. And when u sad u were working alot today, she was like, ooh yeah u did" cracked me up). But u got even with the trayn bads. LOL "thats evel"hahaha.
Again , great video.
Hahaha, we are as evil as one another 😉❤️
забыли сказать что это часть триптиха (вторая часть). первая часть это статуя "тыл - фронту" (на урале выкован и передан меч), статуя "родина мать зовет" (меч поднят) и "воин-освободитель" (в берлине, меч опущен). ну и не надо забывать что основной вклад в победу над фашизмом был сделан СССР. в том же Сталинграде один дом Павлова держался 58 дней - дольше чем гитлер захватил всю францию (43 дня). остальная европа подняла лапки гораздо быстрее. так что пусть рафинированые европейские рахиты еще раз подумают прежде чем начать воевать.
Боюсь, нынешнее поколение будет воевать только если там будет бесплатный wifi.
Есть и четвёртая статуя "перекуём мечи на орала"
Check out the movie 'Stalingrad.' It really moved me. Nothing like being where you are in person, of course, but I didn't know a lot about it until I saw the film. 😔
actualy it is bad movie.
Отлично
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Volgograd is my Motherland. My grandfather was a hero ot the Battle of Stalingrad.
কি ভাষা বলছো কিছু বুঝতে পারছিনা তবুও তোমাদের ভিডিও দেখতে ভালো লাগছে
в Европу и Азию объездил, зато родную страну у иностранцев смотрю
In Edwin Stars song..War?what's it good for nothing😪😪Heartbreaking the loss of life...🌺🌺
Absolutely nothing ❤️
Hm Matt we did get taught about Russian war with Hitler, but did hear stories from my dad who was on Russian convoy, but yes Stalingrad was not good blasted to bits and they had marksmen and markswomen think it was one female who was a great shot. Unlike myself best place if I have a gun is in front, never killed any clay pigeons. Where ever you are at the moment take care be safe. PS did like History so that may have helped with what we got taught. As I live in a quiet back water North West of Manchester. 🙏👋👍👍
Interesting, maybe it is a different generation thing or the curriculum changed over the years, we definitely didn’t touch on it when I was at school, unfortunately ❤️