“I am not going to pretend that a year ago I said, or even thought, that Russia was going to be the rock on which the mighty German ship would founder. I did firmly believe that my countrymen would fight like' lions to defend the fatherland, but what I was afraid of was that they would be handicapped by a lack of organising capacity, by the unsatisfactory state of their roads and railways—of which they themselves had often complained. I don’t need to tell you how wrong I was.” —“A Year of Russian-German War.” Nicolas Stelsovsky at the 8.8. C. microphone, \
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1942, Page 2
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