Law Minister Takiyuddin Hassan has called on Malaysia to develop a strategy that evokes how the Soviet Union defeated Axis forces in the Battle of Stalingrad.

The battle, one of the bloodiest in World War 2, resulted in over 1.1 million Soviet deaths, compared to an estimated 800,000 casualties of the invading Axis forces.

The battle also saw the Soviets saving food supplies, instead of their own people.

"Let us plan a strategy to defeat Covid-19 like how (Soviet leader) Joseph Stalin's Red Army defeated Adolf Hitler's fourth and sixth armies in the Battle of Stalingrad...