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Time is defeating the Germans. Old victories and old defeats are defeating the Germans: the Red Army's stands, retreats and counterattacks; the Wehrmacht's losses at Smolensk, Rzhev and Moscow; the men and weapons spent, the weeks forever lost at Sevastopol; the spaces of the Ukraine, the Kuban plains and the upper Caucasus, conquered but nonetheless expensive to their conquerors; and, finally, the pit of Stalingrad. No one of these great battles, sieges or marches in the greatest campaign of history exhausted or defeated the German Army. But in the aggregate they saved Russia and they saved...
CAIRO--Allied troops are battering steadily into the El Alamein line and deserters and prisoners pouring in from the enemy lines, many of whom fought in Russia, admit that the British artillery barrages are worse than anything they endured before Leningrad. Moscow, and Smolensk, front dispatches said tonight...
...Russian counter-thrust near Moscow will have no effect unless a break-through along the Germans' Smolensk supply line can be made, he stated. Such a break-through would force the Nazis to retreat and draw troops from the South to check the Russian drive...
...cruelly bare and insufficient evidence visible to the non-Russian world, Timoshenko has not consistently distinguished himself in the war with Hitler. His concrete achievements: the heroic defense of Smolensk, which gave Moscow time to prepare its still unbreached defenses, and the recapture of Rostov last November. But, whether the outcome was good or ill, Timoshenko with his peasant hardiness never shifted blame or credit. Said he to his troops before Rostov last year, when the world tended to believe (with Hitler) that the Russian winter alone was stopping the Germans: "Neither rain nor snow is going...
...Azov, innumerable local chores of war have been done. The World has heard echoes of these preparatory struggles in the news from the Kharkov front last month, in the tidings of skirmishes and minor battles last week below Leningrad, on the Moscow front, in the Kalinin area near Smolensk west of the capital, below Kharkov where the Nazis advanced. Greatest of them all was the battle for Sevastopol, whose seizure was both a necessary conclusion to the Nazis' Crimean conquest and an essential prelude to further drives in the south...