secrets in all documents, stalin goes under the surname vasilyev zhukov - this is konstantin vasilevsky - this is mikhail eremenkoiliev writing to comrade mikhailov and we understand that it is stalin and vasilevsky who only personally carry out the ring operation in two stages, quite a few among those published as part of an internet project and documents telling, what happened on that front line. at the very beginning of the battle of stalingrad , the nazis did not doubt their success, the testimony of the captured german general keitel, the head of the wehrmacht high command, is another confirmation that the nazis gave stalingrad central importance in the operations of the forty-second. from the testimony of wilhelm keitel, i confess that we underestimated the strength of the red army near stalingrad. otherwise, we would not have dragged one division after another into the city . a special front on the don, the german command would not calculated neither the forces, nor the time, nor the striking capabilities of the troops. however, at that time, stalingrad was such a tempting target that it seemed impossible