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...should recall that in 1944 we were allied with the Soviet Union. It is sobering to reflect on what might have happened on the beaches of France had the cream of Germany's armed forces not been destroyed by the Soviets at Stalingrad in 1942 and at Kursk in 1943. The beginning of the end for Hitler started much earlier than Dday, and it started in the Soviet Union, not France...
...made in Italian-built factories, drive Fiat-designed autos called Zhigulis, and wear clothes made from fibers spun in a British-designed plant. Soon they will watch color television developed by France's Thomson Co. The West Germans plan to help build a $1 billion steel complex at Kursk, where the Wehrmacht, ironically, suffered defeat in the biggest tank battle of World War II. When West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow this week, he and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev may discuss plans for a project to build a generating plant in Kaliningrad, on the Baltic, that...
...plus an ample measure of good luck. The child of Russian working-class parents, he was born in the Ukrainian town now known as Dnieprodzerzhinsk. He had the right proletarian qualifications for Soviet success, but his early career was not singularly promising. After graduating from a trade school in Kursk, he held a series of unspectacular jobs: land surveyor, factory worker, school director...
Stuffed with Shredded Paper. Many of the details are unfamiliar and fascinating. Strategically, for example, Werth rates the Battle of Kursk (north of Kharkov), in July 1943, as "Hitler's last chance to turn the tide," and thus as important as Stalingrad the previous year. Werth is at his best in eyewitness accounts of Leningrad or of his tour (in -40° C. weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the horror...
...long, Roifman's enterprise involved 52 factories, workshops and collective farms, was turning out sweaters, shirts and kerchiefs. Business was so good that Roifman had to expand into rented basements. After that, production increased rapidly. His total output, 460 tons, was retailed clandestinely at Moscow's busy Kursk Railroad Station through the collusion of two stationmasters, and at street markets...