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Kremlin brings back ‘Stalingrad’

People's Daily Online, 21 December 2004. Post-Soviet Russian leaders have resisted pressure from nationalists and war veterans to restore the name of Stalingrad to the city on the Volga, where more than 1 million Russians and Germans died in five months of fighting in 1942–43.