Hayes Wauford | 13 Feb 2020 9:21 a.m. PST |
My 6 year old thinks I should center an upcoming Stalingrad game around a candy facotry if there was indeed one in Stalingrad? Do any of you folks know? Thanks! Hayes |
pzivh43 | 13 Feb 2020 9:31 a.m. PST |
There had to be, or the fight over Pavlov's Gingerbread house would not have occurred! |
gunnerphil | 13 Feb 2020 9:34 a.m. PST |
How about there was one to raise moral of the workers. It was so important was not marked on maps. Even today the site is restricted. That is why no one has heard of it. |
Extra Crispy | 13 Feb 2020 11:11 a.m. PST |
Can anyone prove there wasn't? |
deephorse | 13 Feb 2020 11:20 a.m. PST |
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Extrabio1947 | 13 Feb 2020 11:29 a.m. PST |
Of course there was a candy factory. It produced M&M's (Marx & Molotovs). Seriously, if your daughter thinks there should be a candy factory, then by all means add one! |
noggin2nog | 13 Feb 2020 12:09 p.m. PST |
Yes: "Fellow veteran Julia Fedorovna was a 16-year-old schoolgirl at the time. Her medals were earned when she stayed behind to help evacuate refugees, not easy when the river ferries were hit, spilling burning fuel on to the river. "That bombing was terrible, the sky was black, even the Volga was on fire," she remembers. "The Germans hit the candy factory, and rivers of liquid caramel came pouring out." from link |
Cerdic | 13 Feb 2020 12:10 p.m. PST |
No! No 'candy' factory! No decadent capitalist fripperies in glorious workers paradise! |
Texas Jack | 13 Feb 2020 1:54 p.m. PST |
"The Germans hit the candy factory, and rivers of liquid caramel came pouring out." So who makes caramel in 20mm? |
GROSSMAN | 13 Feb 2020 4:53 p.m. PST |
I think it was on Popalov street next to the saw dust bread shop. |
Extra Crispy | 13 Feb 2020 4:59 p.m. PST |
By definition, without candy, it is not a paradise. Shiny workers' purgatory at best. C'mon a revolution without chocolate ain't worth getting out of bed for. |
PaulCollins | 13 Feb 2020 5:47 p.m. PST |
Wow noggin, you actually found a real source! Nice! |
Mobius | 13 Feb 2020 8:03 p.m. PST |
Some of these war stories you have to take with a grain of salt. |
Trierarch | 13 Feb 2020 10:20 p.m. PST |
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Simo Hayha | 13 Feb 2020 11:14 p.m. PST |
not that i know of, but there was at least one bread factory that was well fought over |
Cerdic | 13 Feb 2020 11:40 p.m. PST |
Comrade Extra Crispy…the Party has said you live in workers paradise. Therefore you live in workers paradise. I'm sure you agree, don't you comrade… |
Barin1 | 14 Feb 2020 6:06 a.m. PST |
Сhecked for you… Stalingrad had an old candy factory,founded in 1887. After the Revolution it was (of course) named after Lenin.It was almost completely destroyed during city battle, but in 1943 it started making "wartime cookies" for the front. link |
Marc33594 | 14 Feb 2020 6:33 a.m. PST |
Thanks to noggin2nog and Barin1, well done gentlemen! We can consider this a sweet ending. |
Hayes Wauford | 14 Feb 2020 6:48 a.m. PST |
Thank you noggin2nog and Barin1! Our son will be happy!!! |
Bowman | 14 Feb 2020 6:52 a.m. PST |
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Legion 4 | 14 Feb 2020 8:36 a.m. PST |
Barin +1 I was going to say there probably was a candy store there … but it probably got levelled and turned into ruins like much else. Some pretty good humorous replies there too "comrades" !!! LOL !!!! |
4th Cuirassier | 14 Feb 2020 8:40 a.m. PST |
I recall a reference somewhere that says they paved paradise and put up a parking lot. |
Au pas de Charge | 15 Feb 2020 2:50 p.m. PST |
Who knows what the Russians at that time considered candy. Maybe caramelized reindeer ears? Chewy. |
Mobius | 15 Feb 2020 3:37 p.m. PST |
Just another thing to stand in line for. The joke goes that the Soviets invented the 8 items or less line because 8 items is all they had in their stores. |
Legion 4 | 15 Feb 2020 4:56 p.m. PST |
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deadhead | 16 Feb 2020 5:19 a.m. PST |
I was going to add the Hersheybarskaya factory, but what is amazing is that folk have actually researched and come up with serious answers. Great forum this. On the Napoleonic Board even this would have got quite nasty and personal by now. |
Bill N | 16 Feb 2020 5:53 a.m. PST |
I am surprised it was in production in 1942. I thought Soviet sugar beets came primarily from parts of the Ukraine that the Germans overran in 1941. |