i'll be back with more headlines and a half an hour up next two hundred steps lead up to the kurgan memorial one for each day of the battle of stalingrad our special report the motherland calls taking a closer look that's coming your way in a few seconds. she stands fifty two meters tall with a sword eighty five she weighs eight thousand tons and is six meters tall of the most famous symbol of the united states. the guinness book of records named as the tallest sculpture in the world at the time of construction. rushes symbol of victory among the lamb calls sits on the hills of them i ask her to come in full grab. the city saw one of the beloved east battles of the second world war. during the war it was known as the stomach read the first day of the battle in july nine hundred forty two alone so friends and families of people killed more than two million soviet soldiers and residents of stunning grat kid in the course of maybe seven months another million on the hof were killed in the german side the remains of hundreds of thousands of shells and bombs can still be found to this day. this i