Russian Victories
other war news for the last three weeks has been the sensational toll of victories reported from Russia-three of them (Kharkov, Rostov, and Stalingrad) on a big enough scale to end a normal war, three more (Kursk, Lozovaya, and Voroshilovgrad), in the Battle of the Marne class, and one (the rapid clearing of the Caucasus) comparable territorily with the sweep of our own Eighth Army through Libya. We must still keep our heads, and give free play to our doubts and suspicions, but it is almost possible to agree with those who are saying at every street corner that this is the beginning of the end of Hitler. It certainly requires a little more daring at present to believe in a bigscale counter-offensive by Germany than to believe that Stalin has always had a plan, and that we are now seeing it unfold. All plans miscarry to some extent, and have to be modified, but if Russia’s general strategy had been nullified by the German blows the present offensive would have been impossible. For we are not looking at one army or group of armies and at a single field of operations. There are fifteen hundred miles of battlefront between the Leningrad area and the Caucasus, and there has been coordinated pressure all along that line for three weeks, with victories at each end. That is not accident or luck, but organisation on a scale that no one a few months ago thought possible in Russia. And if we must still withhold judgment about the stature of this or that Russian general, there can be no doubt about the General Staff's collective skill, or about the courage and tenacity of the Russian soldier. Defeat has been warded off by national discipline and national faith, by confidence in the leaders and by hatred of the attackers, but most of all by the fact that for the first time in centuries Russian soldiers have been fighting with weapons as formidable as those arrayed against them-and have poured out their blood like water. () VERSHADOWING all
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 192, 26 February 1943, Page 3
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