CONQUERED DEATH
AN IMMORTAL MESSAGE A WALL BY THE RIVER In the spring,, when the Volga opens up and the. ice is carried down to the Caspian, ships.and oil tankers, barges and ral'ts will freely make their way along- the river to Stalingrad. Passengers will be able to read on the right hank the following words inscribed on a high stone wall. They were written there in the earliest days of the assault 011 Stalingrad, and the Soviet people intend to preserve them for ever: — "Rodimtsev's guards will stand here to the death." Below is another inscription, recently added: — "They withstood. They cuntiuerod
death."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 93, 27 July 1943, Page 3
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104CONQUERED DEATH Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 93, 27 July 1943, Page 3
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