The turning point of World War II was not Pearl Harbor, nor Normandy, nor Li Yunlong's besiege of Ping'an County, but the Battle of Stalingrad.
It is said that there was once a riddle: Japan surrenders - a name for an ancient Chinese man.
There are three answers: Su Wu, Qu Yuan, and Gonggong. Which answer to choose depends on which side your butt is sitting on. You taste it, you taste it carefully.
People must have a conscience. Seventy-six years ago, the Soviet Red Army blocked the most powerful army in human history for half a year at the cost of two million casualties, and eliminated more than 1.5 million fully mechanized German devils.
In addition to the Minsk Battle that followed, the German army turned from prosperity to decline, from offensive to decline. Who could have stopped the German army at that time without bloody Stalingrad?
Stalingrad is a tragic city and a heroic city.
His name is Volgograd, but unlike what people think, the name "Stalingrad" has not been discontinued. It has six days a year, respectively-
The day when the war of defense begins, the day when victory, the day when Germany surrenders, the day when Japan surrenders, the day when the war of defense begins, the city will be called back to Stalingrad to commemorate that heroic history
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When the Chinese team arrived here, they just missed the commemoration of the Soviet-German War on June 22, so Volgograd was still there.
Since it is called Volgograd, it is naturally on the banks of the Volga River. The Volga River is Russia's mother river and its status is equivalent to that of the Yellow River in China. We have "The Yellow River Chorus" and Russia has "The Tractor on the Volga River".
Calculated by length, there are the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, Heilongjiang, among the top ten rivers in the world, and there is no Volga. But the Volga River is the first in Europe and the fourth in Russia. This is not surprising. The Ob River, Yenisei River, which ranks in the top three.
Na River, all in Siberia, that is Asia.
Volgograd city is not big, smaller than Kazan and Yebao, but the Chinese team arrived on the day they still caused a sensation to this city with a population of only a million.
Putting down his luggage, Zhuo Yang and the Chinese team all wore formal clothes and came to the famous Mamayev hill together, and presented flowers to the Hero Monument here, and thousands of Chinese fans were accompanied.
Volgograd has held two group matches, but four teams have visited before, but no one has such a formal event. The Chinese team does not want to please anyone, but their heartfelt actions quickly won the favor of all urban residents.
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More than 70 years ago, the Soviet Red Army suffered two million casualties here, and the residents of Stalingrad also had funerals in every family. Who has not had many ancestors who died?
Mamayev Hill is a small hill and a huge tomb. The first place was buried with the Mongols of the Chincha Khanate. More than 7,000 Red Army soldiers were buried 76 years ago.
On the top of the hill is the landmark statue of Volgograd, and the 85-meter-high "Motherland is summoning" holding a sharp sword. Standing here, you can clearly see the Volgograd Athletic Stadium one kilometer away from the foot of the mountain.
Volgograd does not have a Russian Premier League team. The original site of the stadium is the home court of the Volga rotor of the Russian Aerial Arts, which is quite old. For this World Cup, the stadium was completely demolished and rebuilt in 2014, and a professional football stadium that can accommodate 45,000 people was built.
It was completed two months ago.
The Russian League is the second-tier Russian league, but it is also the football league with the largest regional span in the world. Almost all of the sixteen Russian Super League clubs are in western Russia, where population and economy are relatively prosperous, and 20 Russian League teams are truly spread throughout Russia.
From the westernmost Kaliningrad Baltic Club to Ngia, Vladivostok, flight 7,500 kilometers across nine time zones, the time difference is first made when you arrive.
European giants are calling for the Champions League away from home all day long. Teams are tired, and the Russian Alan teams play across continents every day. To be honest, air tickets alone are a big burden, and the Russian sub-level income is very barely enough.
Especially in the Asian part of Russia, professional clubs were predecessors of former corporate factories and mining teams, so Russian Aleigh teams were very difficult to live, and clubs often changed hands or simply disbanded.
The funder of Volgograd rotors is the local metallurgical factory, but nowadays, metallurgical workers are often owed wages. How good can the team be?
The original Volgograd Stadium was a famous rotten vegetable field in the Russian Alipay, but it had no money to repair it. If it weren't for the luck of catching up with this World Cup, Russia's financial allocation would have to bear the cost of new construction, and the stadium would have to be rotten endlessly.
Although China is not as empty as Russia, it is still dazzling compared to Europe. In order to save travel expenses, the entire team took the 20-hour train to play away games.
A small life has a small life, and a big one should also have a big way of playing. You can't be able to make the world bigger, but you can endure my big ones.
Zhuo Yang and the Chinese Football Association are investing in reforming the domestic league competition system. The deformity of the Russian Super League and the Russian Alan has a good reference for the new competition system.
Both China and Russia are very large, but the two are not the same. Russia has an area of ​​1.8 Chinas, but its population is less than 1/9 of that of China, and most of them are concentrated in the European part.
In the Asian part, which accounts for 3/4 of the land area, Russia can truly be called a very large land and sparsely populated area. The distance between cities is very far away. Many places will be in vain when they leave the city.
Even in the relatively remote Xinjiang and Qinghai, China has urban agglomerations of different sizes, not to mention the central and eastern regions. Football is a sport based on population and cities, so China cannot be like Russia, with only large and no technology.
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The Chinese team will play the third round of the group match in Volgograd and Denmark, and this game is full of mystery.
Denmark and the Chinese team arrived here, and the Danish celebrity, now the father of the national goalkeeper Schmeichel, also came to cheer for the team.
23 years ago, Lao Shu was still Manchester United's goalkeeper. In the first round of the UEFA Cup that year, Manchester United was tied 0-0 by their opponents away and returned to Old Trafford. In the first half, he was defeated by his opponents two consecutive games.
In the second half, Scholes scored a goal first. The game entered stoppage time and Manchester United received a corner kick. Schmeichel ran through the game and scored a 2:2 equalizer in the opponent's penalty area.
Although Manchester United was finally eliminated due to away goals, that scene was one of the most classic scenes of Schmeichel's career. In that game, Manchester United's opponent was officially Volgograd Rotor, which was also their most in the European arena.
A far away time.
Old Schmeichel once set a record of 470 minutes without conceding goals in the Denmark national team, and his son Caspar Schmeichel, as Denmark now, is now choosing the national goal, after the team tied France 0:0
, rewrite the unconfisted goal record to 480 minutes.
Chapter completed!