By Branko Marcetic Nearly a year in, the war in Ukraine has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and brought the world to the brink of, in President Joe Biden’s own words, “ Armageddon .” Alongside the literal battlefield, there has been a similarly bitter intellectual battle over the war’s causes.
By Harsh Thakor 80 years ago, an event to place this was the turning point in shaping the course of the last century and amongst the great military achievements in history, literally saving the fate of mankind. February 2nd marked the 80th anniversary since the end of the Battle of Stalingrad with the complete victory of the forces of the Red Army and the crushing of the Nazi armies, something that paved tide in the war in favour of the USSR and more generally planted the seeds for the Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples. Stalingrad is where Nazi Fascism was nailed and spirit of liberation reached an unsurmounted height.