Word: stalingraders
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...cold and shell fire in the city. When in 1942 a relief road was opened to Leningrad across frozen Lake Ladoga, Zhdanov, iron-willed, withheld from the people the food it carried, ordered it stocked in the reserve. In Soviet propaganda the story of Leningrad has been overshadowed by Stalingrad, because the latter marked the beginning of the Red Army offensive. But if the Kremlin should decide (in order to underline Russia's strength against an enemy it can't reach) to stress the U.S.S.R.'s purely defensive power, the propaganda story will be Leningrad, and Zhdanov...
...Turning Point (Lenfilm-Arikino) is a Russian-made semi-documentary billed as the "inside story" of the siege of Stalingrad. The film is superb Soviet propaganda, an interesting historical footnote to one of World War II's decisive battles-and surprisingly exciting entertainment...
...Russians rolled out the Red carpet. The visitor had two nice visits with onetime seminarian Joseph Stalin, to whom he gave a leather-bound copy of the New Testament and two pipes. He also got permission to preach hellfire-&-damnation sermons in churches in nine cities, from Moscow to Stalingrad. Before he was through, his hosts had even persuaded the alcohol-hating Baptist to try a sip of vodka. (His judgment: "It tasted like kerosene mixed with stump water...
...resistance to the Japanese invasion of northern China, or when Litvinoff was the only representative of a major power to speak for Ethiopia against Italy, or when the U.S.S.R. alone made an effort to defeat Franco in Spain? Or during the '40s, while the battles of Sevastopol and Stalingrad were being fought, while the U.S.S.R. was managing to save more of the Jewish civilians left in Europe than any other major power, or perhaps while the charter of the United Nations Organization was being signed...
...Said Witness Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, who had turned anti-Nazi after losing the Battle of Stalingrad: ["I tried in vain to] find some sense for the suffering and death of so many soldiers...