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Muscovites are human; they are acquainted with fear. But they and the regular Army around them are just as determined as the defenders of Leningrad, and all are apt to pay heed to the command which their Government gave them last week...
Moscow the city might be as hard to storm as Leningrad the city. But last week's offensive was apparently aimed not at the city itself so much as at destruction of the great Russian Armies on its flanks...
...this suggests that Adolf Hitler may lay off Russia during the severe winter months, indulging only in minor tactical attacks. Last week's German attacks were of this nature. German forces tried to close leaks in the siege of Leningrad, tried to improve their position on the flanks of Moscow, tried to clean out the Crimea to neutralize Sevastopol, Russia's next-to-last naval base in the Black Sea (last: Novorossiisk in the Caucasus). At Leningrad and Moscow the Russians held fast; in the Crimea Sevastopol held out, but the Germans drove east to Kerch, which...
Speed. The new Russia becomes more powerful every day. A fortnight ago foreign correspondents were taken to a plant near the Urals. In June, when the war broke out, it was a relatively unimportant factory producing a few simple machines. On Aug. 3 a Leningrad factory shut down, dismantled its machinery, loaded it on flat cars and sent it east, along with most of its skilled workers and executives. While the trains were on their way, a community of wooden sheds was built around the Urals plant. When the machines arrived they were set up at once. Unskilled workers were...
Russian men and women, who always hope for what they need and never seem to get it, would understand why even the name of holy Lenin followed Plekhanov's. Some say that in the square called Kazansky in Leningrad there are still echoes of the wild, terrifying shouts of Lenin's teacher, the philosopher Plekhanov, on the occasion of the first Russian popular demonstration...