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...same time Joseph Stalin broadcast a special "order of the day" to the Red Army and the world. His words were confident, but his was the promise of vic tory, not the report of victories gained: "We shall throw the enemy from the gates of Leningrad and liberate White Russia, the Ukraine and the Crimea. The Red Banner will fly everywhere it has flown before." He conceded gravely that victory is still expensively distant: "He [the enemy] is not yet beaten and a stern struggle is ahead of us. New units must be sent to the front to forge victory...
...spring and summer, Leningrad would probably be tightly sealed again. Moscow would be attacked, but could hold. The Germans would make their greatest push in the south, would drive the Russians back to the Don River. There the Russians would try to stand, then in the autumn begin a counteroffensive. By that time, if Britain has succeeded in holding Suez and the Middle East, the Germans would be short of oil, men and morale. Finally, in the winter of 1942-43, with the help of the Allies in the west, the great offensive against the Reich would begin...
...many war-weary months the people of Leningrad have known solemn, youthful Dmitri Shostakovich as a fire fighter, a trench digger, an embattled citizen like themselves. But the rest of the world has continued to think of him as the only living composer, aside from Finland's Jean Sibelius, who can make musical history by writing a new symphony. Last week musical history was again on the make. In Kuibyshev, secondary Soviet capital, the orchestra of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater began rehearsals on Shostakovich's long-heralded Symphony No. 7. Composer Shostakovich has dedicated his symphony...
Fresh Russian troops from the East led a vigorous offensive below Leningrad Sunday, seeking to shatter the whole left wing of the German invasion army, while further south other Soviet forces converged on Smolensk and doggedly fought westward in the Ukraine...
There were increasing evidences that on the bitterly cold eastern front German resistance was stiffening and the Soviet offensive--now 10 weeks old--was slowing its rate of advance. It had not been stopped, however, and Russian salients below Leningrad and stabbing towards Smolensk and westward in the Ukraine constituted a real threat to the whole Nazi line...