King George VI's storic sword of the United Kingdom
A boy inspects the Sword of Stalingrad in the Battle of Stalingrad Museum, 1953.
The Sword of Stalingrad (Russian: Меч Сталингра́да, romanized: Mech Stalingráda) is a bejewelled ceremonial longsword specially forged and inscribed by command of King George VI of the United Kingdom as a token of homage from the British people to the Soviet defenders of the city during the Battle of Stalingrad.[1] On 29 November 1943, it was presented to Marshal Joseph Stalin by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at a ceremony during the Tehran Conference, in the presence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and an honour guard.
^Antony Beevor (1998), Stalingrad, Viking Press, p. 405 ISBN 0-14-024985-0.
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