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...long, slim jetliner was trying to land at night in heavy rain at Sheremetyevo Airport, 18 miles northwest of Moscow, and by some accounts was making its fourth pass at the runway. Villagers in the nearby hamlet of Krasnaya Polyana (Red Glade) suddenly heard a series of explosions. Tramping by torchlight across muddy potato fields, they found the red and silver tail of the Aeroflot Ilyushin-62 sticking out of a cold brown pond. Beneath the water, or on the fields across which the plane had skidded, were the bodies of all the passengers and crew. Unofficial reports indicated that...
This report of a trip through battle-torn Stalingrad was written by Author Konstantin Simonov, published in Moscow's Krasnaya Zvezda and cabled to TIME by its Moscow Correspondent Walter Graebner...
...beleaguered invaders chose to fight, and for several days Russian communiqués dwelt lovingly on 100,000 Nazis facing annihilation. After fierce street fighting, the Red Armies entered a blazing Mozhaisk last week. But the fabulous 100,000 birds had apparently flown. The Red Army organ Krasnaya Zvedzda mentioned prisoners only once ("more than 100" captured by cavalry-supported ski troops), referred glibly to an unspecified number of Germans "retreating westward...
Echoes of the Business. The 19 towers of the Kremlin, the vast emptiness of the Red Square, the workers' homes in the Krasnaya Presnya section of Moscow all resounded last week to a sound they had never before echoed: the shriek and crump of bombs. They had echoed the sirens before; they had echoed the loudspeakers roaring: "Bystree, bystree, tovarishchi-Quicker, quicker, comrades." But those had been mere drills. Last week Moscow got the real business...
...Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star), joined other observers in deflating the Luftwaffe's boast of sky dominance, giving R. A. F. the edge to date in the Battle of Britain. President Roosevelt's military observing mission to Britain (see p. 18) was reported ready to go home, supposedly well impressed with Britain's ability to defend herself...