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Did the Red Army suffer any defeats in WWII after Stalingrad?
Albert Speer, German Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich, with officers of the Organisation Todt military engineering group on the Eastern Front, 1943. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Despite enjoying some local successes, the Nazis were unable to stop the iron steamroller that was the Red Army relentlessly pushing westward.
After defeating the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad, the Soviet troops entered a period of glorious victories, which lasted until the collapse of Nazi Germany in May 1945. Nevertheless, from time to time, the Germans still managed to inflict some sensitive blows to the Red Army.
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The six-year-old soldier who fought in WWII Seryozha Aleshkov was awarded the medal ‘For Combat Merit’, received a Browning as a trophy pistol from an army general and was even “promoted” to the rank of junior lieutenant.
World War II affected the lives of millions of people of all ages. Old men, as well as callow youths, had to take up arms. But only one Red Army regiment on the Eastern Front had a serviceman in its ranks who was just six years old!
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In the summer of 1942, Seryozha [short for Sergei], from the village of Gryn in the Kaluga Region, found himself completely orphaned: His father had died before the war and the Germans executed his mother and brother for their links to the partisans, right before the boy’s eyes. Left all alone, the six-year-old child was aimlessly wandering in the woods in a state of shock when, emaciated and hungry, he was discovered by a reconnaissance group of the 142nd Guar