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This time they had to pin down the Russian army in order to crush it, for the Russians can even now retreat 1,000 miles without even reaching the Ural industrial area. To do this, the Germans had to be free to attack along the whole 2,000-mile battlefront. For this the Germans had to wait for good weather. Not until mid-June can the ground be counted on to be fit and hard in the north around Leningrad (a month later than in the Ukraine...
Although no one knows much about Russia's trans-Ural industrial development, Karpovich feels confident that with the production of these factories, and the steady, though small, stream of supplies from the Allied Nations, the Red troops will be able to resist...
With half of his factories on the East of the Ural Mountains, "Stalin is going to go on fighting and keep on fighting indefinitely," Lamont said, especially if the U. S. sends quantities of tanks, planes, and other weapons
These areas include such great centers as Magnitogorsk, whose iron & steel combine is larger than any in Europe. The Ural Freight Car Building Works in Tagil produced 120,000 two-axle cars in 1939-as many as were made elsewhere in all Russia. There have been many conversions: the Tagil Car Works is now producing military vehicles; the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant now makes tanks; factories in Novosibirsk mass-produce military-type skis. The diversity is surprising: the auxiliary capital produces carburetors, armatures, railway equipment, cinema apparatus, tractor parts, tubes, leather goods, foodstuffs...
...victory. For the Communists, the Marxists-for innumerable reformers who wanted some form of collectivism because they believed it would not only benefit mankind but also strengthen their country-the thought of the fall of Moscow brought on an intellectual crisis that drove them to retreat beyond the Ural Mountains of the mind. But for the U.S. as a whole, the biggest fact of the crisis was that it was masked and unadmitted even by those who acted to try to meet...