After five hundred tanks rolled to this fight, Vasily Chuikov declared "We shall hold the (*) city or die here."
This fight occurred where Hermann Hoth's forces met up with a larger army. A high-ranking POW from this battle was one subject of the declaration "a marshal will not be exchanged for a lieutenant." It is commemorated by an enormous statue of a woman pointing a sword, The Motherland Calls, and was the turning point of the Great Patriotic War. After five hundred tanks rolled to this fight, Vasily Chuikov declared "We shall hold the (*) city or die here." For 10 points, Friedrich Paulus's panzers were defeated in 1943 at what World War II siege in the USSR?
This fight occurred where Hermann Hoth's forces met up with a larger army.
Battle of Stalingrad [or Siege of Stalingrad]