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...much claim to glory as the British people had when they withstood the blitz of 1940. But a strong people had not prevented the loss of White Russia and the Ukraine. Would they be any better able to prevent the conquest of the Don basin, of Stalingrad, of the Caucasus? The strongest will to resist can eventually crack under continued defeat...
Only Stalin knows how he managed to make 1942 a better year for Russia than 1941. But he did. Sevastopol was lost, the Don basin was nearly lost, the Germans reached the Caucasus. But Stalingrad was held. The Russian people held. The Russian Army came back with four offensives that had the Germans in serious trouble at year...
...armies Stalin coined the slogan Umeraite No Ne Otstupaite (Die, But Do Not Retreat). It had been shown at Moscow that a strongly fortified city can be held as a strong point against attack by mechanized forces. Stalin chose to make Stalingrad another such point. While Germans and Russians were booting each other to death in the bomb-pocked streets, Stalin was organizing the winter offensive which burst into the Don basin with the fury of the snowstorms that accompanied...
...Russians lost and regained last year, then lost again last July. If the Russians once more take Rostov, the Germans in the Caucasus will be in immediate danger of losing their last route of supply or escape; the isolation of the Axis armies in the Don bend and at Stalingrad will then be complete. But Rostov last week was only the eventual objective of a campaign which was just beginning...
Fury on the Flanks. For the time being, the Red Army's earlier offensives on the Moscow front and at Stalingrad seemed to be great flank assaults, diverting the Germans from the drives in the middle Don. At Rzhev and other points on the Moscow front the Red Army still battered at the Germans' interlaced strong points in a prolonged battle of attrition. Near Stalingrad U.P.'s Correspondent Henry Shapiro (see p. 40) discovered a mounting wave of confidence, along with evidence that the Russian armies were nearer defeat last September than the world then knew. Last...