The Telegraph
What Putin should learn from the defence of Stalingrad
At 10pm on September 28 1942, a small Russian assault group led by Sergeant Yakov Pavlov stormed and eventually captured from the Germans a long, tall building on 9th January Square, in the centre of Stalingrad, close to the Volga river, that dominated the surrounding area. That building – known as the “Lighthouse” and later “Pavlov’s House” – was held by Soviet defenders for the remainder of the vicious five-month Stalingrad battle, one of the key turning points of the Second World War, and bec
