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Stalin still had the magnificent will to resist of the Russian people-who had as much claim to glory as the British people had when they withstood the blitz of 1940. But a strong people had not prevented the loss of White Russia and the Ukraine. Would they be any better able to prevent the conquest of the Don basin, of Stalingrad, of the Caucasus? The strongest will to resist can eventually crack under continued defeat...
...lacerated Fascism with numerous brilliantly satirical cartoons. Where Goya fought sadism in war with purposely sadistic drawings of actual fighting, Topolski expresses total war through images of Russian peasants, London women and children bombed out of their homes, soldiers worn out after battle, firemen exhausted after days & nights of blitz, crowds rushing for safety-pathetic rather than cruel facts...
When the Nazis bombed England, Topolski "wandered about gaping, secure in a curious self-imagined sense of being only a spectator behind the footlights. . . ." While he was sketching a Wren church in the middle of a night blitz, a huge bomb blew the church away, hurled Topolski to the ground. He was five weeks in the hospital. Says he: "I was still trying not to miss anything of the show...
...Summerskill estimated: "The casualties during the last year from venereal disease were far greater than the casualties of the blitz...
Still more embarrassed were Government propagandists who had just issued pamphlets urging the Italian people to be as brave as the British were during the blitz. The Neapolitans had an answer for that. In the Cathedral of San Gennaro they knelt in prayer, mumbling: "Dear God. direct the bombers on to Rome. That is where Mussolini...