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During the recent months, while millions of men fought for every street and heap of rubble in Stalingrad, Moscow women and a few men were tunneling through clay under the capital, circumventing subterranean streams, pouring reinforced concrete, installing ornate chandeliers and inserting mosaics. For while Russia's leaders have long preached and practiced sacrifice in the name of their country and their ideas, they have always striven to keep before the people some great symbol, beautiful and useful, so that any shawl-swathed peasant woman, any unshaven, fur-clad Siberian trapper could come to Moscow, stare openmouthed in admiration...
Eleven transport planes were brought down in the Stalingrad area-Russian communique...
...relieved or shot. The Army's own Red Star has repeatedly complained that the Germans still outgeneraled the Russians. Last week Moscow announced that one of its famous generals-Marshal Semion Timoshenko (TIME, July 22), commander on the southern front when the Germans broke through and drove to Stalingrad-had been replaced...
With the need, the rate of loss in Russia has also risen. Early in the campaign to relieve Stalingrad the Russians concentrated on the Luftwaffe transports; Moscow claimed the destruction of 46 in one day, 60 in another, 225 in seven days. The Germans apparently still had advanced airdromes for most of their armies, still had transports. Upon the Russians' ability to destroy these airlines to the German islands, victory might swing...
...stead, directing the Red Army's counteroffensives to relieve Stalingrad, was aggressive, 48-year-old Army General Gregory Zhukov, who also had much to do with planning the offensive on the central front (TIME, Dec. 14). London reported that Marshal Timoshenko was still in high favor, helping Stalin prepare a final blow against the Germans. But, in a unique communiqué, Moscow announced a long list of generals who had distinguished themselves this winter and the name of Timoshenko did not appear among them. This unprecedented list personalized the Red Army with new names, new faces (see cuts) like...