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...Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov's armies had advanced to the Bug River, between Kovel and Lublin, had thus penetrated "the Government General of Poland" (i.e., crossed the Russian-German, partition line of 1939). It was here, on the southern Polish plains, that the Germans had feared the heaviest Rus sian blows...
...medals. (A standing wisecrack: "He got that medal for preventing rape; he changed his mind.") But the U.S. is not the only reputable army with a lot on its chest. Russian officials joyfully announced last week that over 2,000,000 decorations had been bestowed on Soviet heroes. The Rus-sian Army has seen a lot more fighting than the U.S. Army, but in proportion to estimated size, this is at least eight times as much kudos as the U.S. Army has distributed...
...Soviet Government's recognition of the Church has done more than restore Moscow as the capital of a religiously united Russia. It united Europe's Danubian and Balkan Slavs in a Slavic religious continent whose heartland is Rus sia, whose metropolis is Moscow...
...Adolf Hitler. He believed that the Russian Orthodox priests and their congregations would flock to the side of Rus sia's Nazi invaders, who would free them from the persecuting Bolsheviks. What Hitler did not foresee was that his inva sion would turn Russia from a country in which a majority of defenseless Christians was ruled by an aggressive anti-religious minority into a nation in arms, in which the majority, though intensely patriotic, was no longer defenseless...
Blood & Steel. But it had taken Rus sian lives and steel to alter the maps, to change the goals. Both Moscow and Berlin last week totaled up the cost to each other of the summer and fall offensive, came out with incredible but nevertheless significant figures...