I do agree with the comments of the critic. However, I have been to Stalingrad, now Volgograd (also Volgagrad). This film story of what had happened,according to the Soviet's view, is what the people of today in the area admire and revere. The monuments are enormous. Anyone who is interested in the WWII should see this one as it well depicts the events and activity from the Soviet's point of view. The movie about Stalingrad and the news footage we saw in the US at the time did not come close to showing what this film did. Volgograd has fully recovered from the war, and has left a few structures as they were at the end of the war as a memorial and reminder of the events that happened. The huge statue and mausoleum have a constant flow of people, mostly school groups of kids from all over Russia.