Reaction to The Soviet Charge - Enemy at the Gates (2001) | is it historically accurate?

Amateur Historian reacts and analyses [Step By Step] the Soviet attack at the battle of Stalingrad in the movie Enemy at the Gates (2001). What do you think of this scene?

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[goodbyetoromance]

There's only two historically accurate parts in the movie,
1. Soviets and Germans fought a battle in Stalingrad.
2. There was a sniper named Wassily.

[jasonmussett]

Soviet troops went into the city armed. I think the writers got confused with the Russian Army in 1914.

[bbcmotd]

Vasily Zaitsev's widow Zinaida on the movie Enemy At The Gates: "Vasily is changed completely in the movie. They showed blatant lies. Vasily would have never go as low as doing the things he does in the movie".

[TheStapleGunKid]

Funny how the troops making the assault seem to have almost no weapons or ammo, but the blocking division set up to stop them from running has tons of both.

[random]

Its crazy that this movie is So popular that it created a myth!

[vintura]

Call of duty and Hollywood in general always the Russians are to blame and all the villains are they.
it's especially funny to watch their films about Russians, we really laugh at how they portray us, for us it's a comedy.
But most of them believe in what they see, and it's sad.

[jasonmussett]

By the time of Stalingrad, the Soviets used smaller sections and abandoned the mass charges of 1941. I don' t think Enemy At The Gates does the Soviets much justice.

[przemysawabramowski]

From Poland: I found this movie strange and only partially convincing as a result of these stupidities. One rifle per two? C'mon. No army in the world fought like that. This shot-up running attack, and the Germans being so obviously prepared? How would they know the attack is coming? Etc., etc. .... Another movie with incredible scenes and overall well played, but this "tactics" stuff so overblown and distorted that it's hard to watch without incredulity.

[noahgibsonspeninsularwarsa]

Boat scene is plausible to the landing, but the rest of the scene is Hollywood on drugs.

[greglaplante]

Patton said never walk new recruits past dead or dying, wounded soldiers.

[yourivalda]

6:10 about the bullets uses by stukas, theese are 7.92 mm mg so the machinegun bullets showed in the movie are realistic, the german veteran should have been hit by a .50cal (12.7mm) this caliber had see a lot use in the allied planes, british planes have 20mm so i don’t think somebody can survive a 20mm shell in the lung, anyway great job for you video :D

[alexeishayya-shirokov]

Thank you for yet another excellent video. I am glad you discussed this topic, as Soviet Army stalingrad veterans were outraged when this movie was shown to them back in the mid-2000s.

My grandfather fought in the battle, and what he described was the opposite of what they showed in this movie; they didn't have a shortage of weapons, it's a shortage of men that they had faced at the time.

[AF-rokk]

Thank you for a good analysis.
This film simply disgraced the Soviet army. My great-grandfather and his brother volunteered for the front. My great-grandfather died in 1943 in the Battle of Stalingrad and his brother died in 1944.
This movie is just shit. It is better to read the book "There was no land for us beyond the Volga: Notes of a sniper", which was written by Vasily Zaitsev himself. After watching this movie, I feel like I've wasted a couple of hours of my life.

[hadesdogs]

People tend to believe that the Soviets were a bunch of mismanaged farmers and whilst this isn’t far from the truth the Soviets were far more structured than people give them credit for. Because war isn’t just about shooting as many enemies but is also a war of logistics, if you can organize and then reorganize an army as well as successfully set up a stable support network then you can beat the enemy (most of the time) a great example would be he African campaign where incompetent or dogmatic commanders would ignore the needs of logistics as well as adapting to new situations, vs the more flexible and capable Germans. But as soon as a solid supply line was established and aid from America in the form of tanks and supplies the British started to gain the upper hand, and whilst the British are credited with the main battle tank conceit it’s actually the Soviets who pioneered the universal tank concept with the T34 series

[tsoliot]

If you didn't know, dear reader, one reason of many that the city of Stalingrad was defended so vociferously is that it had a weapons manufacturing factory that continued to produce ppsh smgs during the entire battle. They would at times be taken directly to the frontlines from the finishing shop.

So while it's cinematic to have an every other soldier rifle distribution, the Soviets did not want for arms.

[maiidegeese]

If anything a more accurate depiction of Stalingrad would be like the last battle in Saving Private Ryan; Soviets holding position in a congested urban environment with not just street to street fighting but room to room. General Chuikov who was in charge of Stalingrad's defense had his units fight close quarters combat with the Germans to make their air cover less effective. If they tried fighting in the open and at a distance they would just be pounded into the dirt by the Luftwaffe.

[i_ased_i]

This guy is a legend at analyzing millitary historical stuff

[jbrad]

Small side note, the machine guns coming off of a Stuka were actually firing the same round as the German machine guns on the ground. Granted they did actually have more energy as they were firing from a moving target, but they were the same rounds.

[panzerwolf]

I have two Mosins myself. A Tula made in 1942, and a Izhevsk from 1943. Both are really rough compared to pre and post war Mosins, but that's extra history. There was a large stain along part of the Tula rifle from just in front of the magazine to about the sling eyelet. The stories i heard when I bought it claim it to be blood. I may have to see about testing it some day.