They Called It Death Zone — Until He Picked Up Enemy Guns and Killed 66 Troops at Stalingrad
Автор: patriot wars
Загружено: 2025-12-13
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November 23rd, 1942. Stalingrad's frozen ruins. Soviet Private Ivan Volkov crouched behind shattered brick with only 4 rounds remaining in his Mosin-Nagant rifle. Across 200 meters of rubble, 66 German soldiers advanced in three waves. Soviet doctrine strictly prohibited using captured enemy weapons—the penalty was execution for desertion.
In the next 11 minutes, Volkov would violate that doctrine 17 times.
This is the untold story of how one Russian machinist from Tula, armed with nothing but scavenged German MP-40s and desperate courage, killed 66 enemy troops and accidentally rewrote Red Army weapons policy. While officers debated regulations in basement bunkers, Volkov and soldiers like him were dying because bolt-action rifles couldn't compete with German automatic weapons in close-quarters factory combat.
His innovation spread like wildfire. Within weeks, 40% of Soviet forces in Stalingrad carried captured German weapons. Casualty rates dropped 23%. The Red Army never officially credited him, but hundreds of soldiers survived because one man refused to die with the wrong weapon in his hands.
This is how warfare actually evolves—not through headquarters, but through frozen basements and desperate choices.
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