Title: Battle of Stalingrad Source:
YouTube URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsLBd_RSiUk Published:Oct 25, 2013 Author:Discovery Channel Post Date:2018-02-21 17:04:08 by A Pole Keywords:war, sniper, Russia Views:1549 Comments:28
sneakypete (#4). --- Nice video about the Nazi army enjoying a luxurious winter vacation with their Soviet hosts in Stalingrad.
Don't be jealous, you can go there too. --- A Pole
Pete did go to Russia, correct? Did you get down to Stalingrad?
A good friend (history teacher) organised a trip to the USSR/Stalingrad during the Reagan era. -- The Intourist agency canceled our trip at the last minute, with no explanation. -- We figured that one of us must have been outed as a spy...
Pete did go to Russia, correct? Did you get down to Stalingrad?
Nope,just Moscow once,and Yoshkar-Ola once. I intended to go back again and buy or rent a Ural motorcycle with a side car,and take a ride from Moscow to St.Petersburg to see some of the more rural areas,and of course to visit the Hermitage,but got sick and never made it back again.
Pete did go to Russia, correct? Did you get down to Stalingrad?
Nope,just Moscow once,and Yoshkar-Ola once. I intended to go back again and buy or rent a Ural motorcycle with a side car,and take a ride from Moscow to St.Petersburg to see some of the more rural areas,and of course to visit the Hermitage,but got sick and never made it back again.
sneakypete
What in hell did you do in Yoshkar-Ola?
Much the same happened to me on my much looked forward to trip to Munich, and the October Fest..
You can guess, I had it all ready to do, -- the week after 9/11...
Long story short,I was there visiting a woman I had made friends with while researching the origins of man. She was half-Mari,and the woman that created the first written dictionary of Mari words and terms. She was a linguist at the local university there,and read,wrote,and spoke 5 languages. Her husband was an engineering professor at the same university,and he also spoke excellent English.
The Mari are,for want of a better definition,"Russia's Indians. They were there when the first Caucasians showed up. The were also a few in Finland that mostly followed the reindeer herds,and a few in Hungrary. Look at photos of the Mari of the 20's and 30's,and you think you are looking at Cherokees. Birch bark canoes,teepees,feathers in their hair,etc,etc,etc.
The Mari are,for want of a better definition,"Russia's Indians. They were there when the first Caucasians showed up. The were also a few in Finland that mostly followed the reindeer herds,and a few in Hungrary.
Sounds like Norway's 'Sami?'.. I married into San Francisco's Norwegian community, and they were big on that kinda stuff.. -- Interesting....
