Yes, it is a fair estimate, but the Soviet version of the figure has varied a lot over the years.
There's been someone else at Stalingrad in this series talk about being there. Now obviously, lots of people were, but vastly more weren't (and a big chunk of those who were died!) Cynical me thinks it's because it's the only bit that most viewers will have heard of.
Here, she's claiming to have been in the city at the time of the battle. If I had a better copy, I'd see if the photo is of something like the tractor factory or Pavlov's house...
She'd have to have been in the bits that stayed under Soviet control because surely someone who'd been on the wrong side of the lines wouldn't be trusted to get to the position she has.
I'd prefer it if she said Leningrad, for example. Or that her family died in one of the 1941 encirclements.
Great Patriotic War
There's been someone else at Stalingrad in this series talk about being there. Now obviously, lots of people were, but vastly more weren't (and a big chunk of those who were died!) Cynical me thinks it's because it's the only bit that most viewers will have heard of.
Here, she's claiming to have been in the city at the time of the battle. If I had a better copy, I'd see if the photo is of something like the tractor factory or Pavlov's house...
She'd have to have been in the bits that stayed under Soviet control because surely someone who'd been on the wrong side of the lines wouldn't be trusted to get to the position she has.
I'd prefer it if she said Leningrad, for example. Or that her family died in one of the 1941 encirclements.