Stalingrad Tractor Plant  

Mission: Stalingrad Tractor Plant
Player: USSR, opponent Germany
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The struggle for bridgeheads near the Volga, especially on Mamayev Kurgan and at factories in the northern part of the city, lasted more than two months. The battles for the Krasny Oktyabr plant, the tractor plant and the Barrikady artillery plant became known to the whole world. While the Soviet soldiers continued to defend their positions by firing at the Germans, plant and factory workers repaired damaged Soviet tanks and weapons in the immediate vicinity of the battlefield, and sometimes on the battlefield itself.
Prehistory: On the morning of August 23, the Nazis broke through the defenses of the Soviet troops in the area of ​​the Vertyachey farm. The troops of the Stalingrad and South-Eastern fronts were separated by an eight-kilometer breakthrough corridor, into which the forces of the army of General Paulus rushed. The advanced units of the Wehrmacht made an unexpected breakthrough to the Volga north of Stalingrad. Columns of tanks with fascist swastikas and motorized infantry ended up at the threshold of the city, two or three kilometers from the tractor factory.