Every year on August 23rd, the bodies of all the missing World War II Red Army soldiers found on the former Stalingrad battlefield during the preceeding year are reburied at Rossoschka cemetery. 1000 to 2000 missing soldiers are recovered from the fields around Stalingrad by volunteer digging groups each year.
Identified bodies (approximately 1% of the total) are buried in the small coffins seen being buried in indivIdual graves. All the other bodies, that are not identified, aRE put together in the large coffins.
Note that these soldiers were not necesseraly Russian, but from all the Soviet Union.
This video is an extract of the video "The Stalingrad Digging Camp". The full video can be seen here: [ Ссылка ]
A Crocodile Tears Production video.
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