A medium firm mattress is ideal for this type of sleeper. For side sleepers, a mattress with slight softness is necessary to cushion the shoulders and hips. Stomach sleepers (who very likely sleep this way because of lower back pain) need a firmer mattress to keep them afloat.
Nowhere is the Volga River more hallowed than in the city named after it: Volgograd, better known to history as Stalingrad. During World War II, perhaps the bloodiest battle in history took place there. A total of 2 million people were lost on both sides in the fighting from the summer of 1942 to February 1943.
Now, on the 70th anniversary of Nazi Germanyâs defeat, the war and the victory are a legacy that seem to divide far more than they uniteâa subject of often bitter contention between Russia and its ex-Soviet neighbors, between Russia and the West, and between Kremlin-loyal âpatriotsâ and pro-Western liberals within Russia.