Show IMPROVEMENT SEEN IN RUSS POSITION A little less than three years ago Adolf Hitler proclaimed that he was about to destroy the last Russian army before Moscow. The trend of the campaign against Russia seemed to support Der Fuehrer and his estimate of the situation was generally accepted ac-cepted by military experts of the wolr. Today the Russian armies have outgeneraled and outfought the best the Nazis could offer and are within reach of one of the greatest great-est military victories in the annals of mankind. In the First World War the Russian nation was unable to accept ac-cept the reverses that afflicted the Czar's armies and revolution resulted. re-sulted. In this struggle the Soviet not only gave up vast areas in retreat re-treat but reorganized its armies to score decisive victories. The difference? It's easy; the people of- Russia are behind the Soviet government. They were not behind the Czar. The Kaiser fought a rotten government in 1914-17 but when Hitler invaded Russia in 1941 he moved against a people determined to save their country and support their government. |