Seventy Years Ago: Stalingrad

Professor Brad DeLong, who has been "liveblogging" World War II on his economics blog, has posted an essay on our debt to Stalingrad.

The Siege of Stalingrad halted the Wehrmacht advance and began their long retreat to defeat. This was the battle that saved Eurasia from German conquest.

We in the West have never publicly acknowledged the tremendous sacrifice of Soviet defenders. It was not only the soldiers whose heroism halted the Germans. It was the workers.Throughout the siege, factory workers kept producing T-34 tanks in factories partially occupied by Germans. Tanks rolled off the assembly line directly into battle.

The same was true at Leningrad.

It is time we took another look at Soviet history and the many accomplishments of the Soviet Union.

Let's remove our own ideological blinders and examine that period objectively.