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...Imagine Franklin Roosevelt going on nationwide radio hook-up . . . and saying the following three months after Pearl Harbor: 'My fellow Americans, Hitler's armies are smashing at the gates of Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad. Russia will be knocked out of the war in the course of the next six to eight weeks . . . The Japanese have just destroyed the heart of our fleet at Pearl Harbor and we see no way to stop them...
Before leaving for Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad, the scene of a decisive Soviet victory against the Germans in 1942), Mitterrand said that the U.S.-Soviet dialogue currently appears to be so chilled that it is "closer to the pole than the equator." A senior Western diplomat expressed a similar view: "We are in for a long haul of this Soviet mood. The Soviets have dug themselves in and they are going to have difficulty digging themselves out." -By Hunter R. Clark. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Jordan Bonfante with Mitterrand
...congratulation over the Normandy invasion, we 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...
...early 1942, when the Germans' panzer divisions swept to within 40 miles of Moscow and their Japanese allies struck at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Malaya. The hitherto invincible Japanese navy had been checked at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Soviets held fast at Stalingrad, and the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa that autumn inspired Churchill to say that although victory there might not be the beginning of the end, it was perhaps "the end of the beginning...
Even if that is so, a Soviet army vastly inferior in weaponry to today's ground forces defended Stalingrad against the Nazis in an epic, five-month struggle that was a turning point in World War II. The Soviets astonished the world again in October 1957 when they launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, despite a technological gap with the West far greater than the present one. And whatever account one believes of the Korean Air Lines calamity, the fact remains that a Soviet pilot did fire on the intruding jumbo jet. Given the growing size and complexity...