The city was practically totally destroyed. Without infrastructure wouldn’t it have just been some pile of rocks on the Volga? Why did the axis not just set up shop a few miles down the river after destroying the city?
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To get a little philosophical, cities only exist in the minds of homo sapiens. I mean, there are objective measures of cities like population and structures, but that’s not what they really are. You could bomb the Soviet Union to smithereens, kill every citizen, and you still would not destroy the Soviet Union. Yet, at the stroke of a pen, the Soviet Union was destroyed totally.
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