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...that the project's success was considerable. The Jewish people had survived 2,000 years of persecution not just by faith and courage but also by geographic dispersion. Decimated here, they would survive there. Until Hitler. Hitler managed to destroy most everything from the Pyrenees to the gates of Stalingrad, the heart of the Jewish world. Amid the ruins, the Jews made a collective decision that their future lay in self-defense and territoriality, in the ingathering of the exiles to their ancient homeland where they could finally acquire the means to defend themselves...
...Soviet workers are stirred by an almost religious enthusiasm; in spite of shortages, difficulties, hardships. The Stalingrad tractor factory was finished six months ahead of schedule...
Sometimes the communist rulers revised their pantheon of heroes and cities as politics changed: Stalingrad, originally Czaritsin, became Volgograd after Joseph Stalin's crimes were made public in the 1960s. (Another Soviet joke: After the change from Stalingrad was announced, the Kremlin supposedly received a cable that read, I CONCUR WITH THE CRITICISM OF THE COMRADES. SIGNED: JOSEPH VOLGIN...
Almost immediately after Operation Barbarossa was launched in June 1941, Stalin began imploring Churchill -- and, after Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt -- to open a second front in Europe to draw German forces away from Russia. The pressure from Moscow was especially intense during the battle for Stalingrad. Even after the German advance was halted and reversed in 1943, Stalin continued to declare that as mighty as the revived Red Army was, it could...
Routed at Stalingrad, Hitler still exacts a terrible price...