Back Espasa de Stalingrad Catalan Schwert von Stalingrad German Espada de Stalingrado Spanish شمشیر استالینگراد Persian Stalingradin miekka Finnish Pedang Stalingrad ID Spada di Stalingrado Italian Miecz Stalingradu Polish Espada de Stalingrado Portuguese Меч Сталинграда Russian
The Sword of Stalingrad (Russian: Меч Сталингра́да, romanized: Mech Stalingráda) is a bejewelled ceremonial longsword specially forged and inscribed by command of King George VI of the United Kingdom as a token of homage from the British people to the Soviet defenders of the city during the Battle of Stalingrad.[1] On 29 November 1943, it was presented to Marshal Joseph Stalin by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at a ceremony during the Tehran Conference, in the presence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and an honour guard.
- ^ Antony Beevor (1998), Stalingrad, Viking Press, p. 405 ISBN 0-14-024985-0.
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