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Clear the Road. "I am in despair," wrote a German soldier in his diary on Hitler's tenth anniversary as the Reich's Chancellor. "How much longer is it going to last? . . . What have I done? If I could only live in peace." When Soviet Author Ilya Ehrenburg saw the diary he provided the answer: "Who asked you to come to our country? You could have stayed at home with your wife. But you chose Hitler. There is only one thing left for you: 'Die, scoundrel! Clear the road for life...
...their second winter of war knew it better than most. The Germans at Stalingrad were surrounded (see map), but they were not yet defeated. What the Red Army had won, but had yet to exploit, were positions and advantages which may eventually doom the Wehrmacht. Said Moscow Author Ilya Ehrenburg, preparing the Russian people for greater struggles...
Soviet War Correspondent Ilya Ehrenbourg expressed what the people of Stalingrad, the Red Army and all Russia felt about their great battle for Stalingrad...
...Lieut. Maslov commanded a British Valentine (16-ton) tank. He had trouble pronouncing Valentine, but liked the tank. He had a snub nose, tow hair and knew English. He talked of Dickens, Chaucer and Sterne by the hour. He and others in his tank regiment gave Russian Correspondent Ilya Ehrenburg the best measure yet recorded of Allied aid to the U.S.S.R.: "Were our front only 100 miles long, we could say we have enough British tanks." The Russian front is 2,000 miles long...
Said the English-language Moscow News, as though arguing a case before a doubtful jury: "Hitler's back is his weakest spot-he should be struck there with all the might at our disposal." Famed Russian Correspondent Ilya Ehrenburg cabled to the London Evening Standard: "In his recent speech Churchill said that it was the Crimean campaign that helped to save Malta from the continuation of mass bombing. All our men have read this by now. . . . It is timely to tell our Allies of the scale of fighting and of the seriousness of the situation. Let every reader...