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Originally Posted by varmint
enemy at the gates was great until the last ten minutes. the wild west gunfight showdown between snipers was beyond stupid.
and i can't believe nobody's mentioned Red Dawn yet.
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There really was a real life show down if you will between the 2 protagonists in the movie. The Russian sniper really did terrorize the Germans as he was taking out so many of them. The Germans to counter brought in the Commandant of their sniper school to get him. The Russians noticed that a lot of their people were being sniped in a particular sector, so they figured it was some one good so they brought in their best guy. It was just a war of a waiting for one or the other to make a mistake. One day the Russian sniper guy saw the glint off the lens of the Germans scope from under a sheet of tin, so the Russian sent a bullet his way, getting the German right through the scope lens and eye.
The battle of Stalingrad was like two rabid dogs, who had each other by the throats and neither would let go. It was brutal as Stalin said, "Not a step back." and in the process the Russians lost apx 1,000,000 men. The Germans for Hitlers folly lost some 250,000 the whole of their elite 6TH Army, of which 90,000 went into captivity and 5000 came home in 1955 (10 years after the war was over).
The Battle of Stalingrad did not signify that Germany would lose the war, as it turned out they had one more throw of the offensive dice at Kursk in the summer of 43. Which turned out to be the largest armored engagement in the war and in history. That battle was the drang and sturm of Titans.
The Russians during the war lost apx 20,000,000 dead the Germans apx 12,000,000...Think of it as the whole of the population of S Cal as just not being there anymore. The whole of Europe from the Atlantic ocean to Moscow and Stalingrad was the rubble of scorched earth.