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Originally Posted by Kai-Petri
In private Chuikov would say simply:
"....If the Germans had wiped us out and crossed the Volga everything would have been different. The psychological effect of capturing Stalingrad would have been enormous.The counter-offensive would not(!) have worked."
Doesn´t this mean that Chuikov was saying that by taking Stalingrad early on the Red Army would have been beaten and Hitler would have won...?!!
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Or reading betwwen the lines he might have been saying "So, as the hero of Stalingrad look what I have prevented!"
This may or may have any bearing, but remember Chuikov had the homour of being the only Marshal S.U. that was buried away from Moscow, in the place of his being annointed a Hero, his Stalingrad city.
Here are two pics of his tomb.
http://www.geocities.com/sfjinmoscow.../chuikov01.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/sfjinmoscow.../chuikov02.jpg