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Ulbricht took up Soviet citizenship, helped organize German P.W.s and captured officers (among them, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus) into the pro-Communist shock corps that was supposed to go home and paint Germany Red after V-day. The propaganda barrage laid down on the encircled Wehrmacht armies at Stalingrad was written by Ulbricht and delivered in his guttural German over front-line loudspeakers. In Moscow, where he rubbed elbows with Red princelings from all over Europe, e.g., Tito, Togliatti, Thorez, he shared quarters in the Lux Hotel with a plain, buxom German émigree named Lotte...
...have just returned from the latest of a number of visits to Western Germany, where I have been talking to the Soviet defectors who, ever since V-day, have been risking their lives crossing the frontier to freedom. These people are not neurotics, who would have been misfits under any system; they are spirited and intelligent people, often with assured careers in the U.S.S.R., had they cared to stay subject to its tyranny. The message they one & all want conveyed to the West is: "Do not identify the Russian people with the Kremlin. The Russians, if you have...
Nobody wrote the "Great War Novel" that everybody has taken for granted ever since V-day. But a few writers did try to record their personal experiences, particularly young (25) Norman Mailer, a Pacific veteran whose The Naked and The Dead, a rugged, stormy first novel, whirled straight to the top of the bestseller list and stayed there. Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions also made a great splash, though with far less literary justification...
...because of the invaluable sacrifices your country made to restore our freedom or would it be for the grand way in which you have been helping us since V-day...
Demobilization of Russia's huge Red Army (estimated V-Day total: 12,000,000) began in earnest last week. By order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, soldiers and noncommissioned officers in ten age groups and hundreds of thousands of specialists will be released from duty by year...