![Matrix-Stalingrad](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static.wikia.nocookie.net/matrix/images/1/17/Matrix-Stalingrad.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20091201090844)
Stalingrad after its defeat by a Sentinel invasion force
Stalingrad was a fortress designed by The General and operated by his loyal Sentinel forces in the Real World as a hardened transmission site for them to broadcast their own pirate signal into the Matrix. Long a nuisance to the Machines the outpost suffered many attacks before being successfully destroyed, its inhabitants forced to flee into the Matrix where they all quickly became property of The Merovingian.