Newly independent countries might have been best prepared to establish stable governments if they

had been granted a degree of self-rule when they were colonies is the correct answer.

Explanation:

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.