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Delleg to Moscow (1941)
i" Krieg sch Is for the nazi blitz-
false a €me, and dispelled the
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M0 Ki}0)7 1943 totalled 1,500,-
iter ne Wounded or captured.
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I Paty | 1944 brought fascist
bn: e ag the brink of disas-
Med hy , punching blows deli-
i the; Soviet armed forc-
ling ge “St greatly eased the
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vel Mt con ance and their sub-
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liha? 8 Offensive, the Soviet
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» IN the course of the

war, the Soviet Army wiped out
507 German divisions and 100
divisions of the satellite coun-
tries of Germany, whereas the
Anglo-American troops in North
Africa, Italy and Western Eu-
rope routed and captured 176
enemy divisions. Fascist Ger-
many lost 13.6 million men
killed, wounded and captured in
World War 2, and of this total,
10 million on the Soviet-German
front. Here the enemy lost
three-quarters of his air force
and the greater part of his art-
illery and tanks.

The fate of the whole world
war depended, first and fore-
most, on the outcome of the
struggle between the USSR and
Germany. The bulk of the armed
forces of the “Third Reich” was
concentrated on the Soviet-
German front in the period,
1941-1945. For instance, from
153 to 201 German divisions, or
two-thirds of fascist Germany’s
ground forces, operated on the
Soviet-German front from June
1941 to the beginning of 1944,
while, at the same time, the
Anglo-American troops were
opposed by between two and 21
German fascist divisions, or 0.9-
6.6% of- the German ground
forces. The remaining divisions
were engaged in occupation
service and fought against the
resistance forces in the nazi-
overrun territories.

In the period after the open

ing of the Second Front and
until the end of the war in Eu-
rope, less than one-third of fas-
cist Germany’s ground forces
were deployed on the Western
and Italian fronts. The nazis
hurled up to 70% of their air
force against the Soviet Union.

Lastly, it should be noted that

combat operations on the Soviet-.

German Front were of an excep-
tionally tense nature. In scale
and activity, there was No com-
parison with the operations of
the Anglo-American troops. Be-
sides, as testified by seized en-
emy documents, crack divisions
of the Wehrmacht and the satel-

East, whereas, on other fronts,
the enemy combat units were
usually not at full strength and
inadequately equipped.

Of the 12.5 million men in the
U.S. armed forces in the war,
only a part was used on: active
battlefronts. American troops in
Western Europe, for instance,
numbered a little over two mil-
lion by September 1944, where-
as, in the same period (by the
beginning of 1944), more than
six. million Soviet officers and
in action on the

men were
Soviet-German front.
The facts thus irrefutably

testify that it was precisely the
destruction of the main milita-
ry forces of fascist Germany on
the German-Soviet front that
led to the collapse of the nazi
military and state machine.

The Soviet people highly
value the contribution made by
the peoples of the United States,
Britain, France and other coun-
tries, allies of the USSR in the
Anti-Hitler Coalition, in scor-
ing victory over the common
enemy. But they strongly reject
the attempts of bourgeois falsi-
fiers of history to deny the truth
that the brunt of the struggle
against German fascism was
borne by the Soviet people and
their armed forces, who dis-
played unheard-of courage, for-
titude, and valor in this strug-
gle.

“Not only our contemporaries,
but future generations, too,”
Marshal of the Soviet Union
Andrei Grechko, USSR Minister
of Defense, declared from the
rostrum of the 24th Congress of
the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union, will forever re-
member and revere the heroic
Soviet soldiers, who saved the
world from fascist enslavement,
and who secured freedom, inde-
pendence, and social progress
for the peoples of many coun-
tries of Europe and Asia.”

The great exploit of the
Soviet people and their army is
inscribed everlastingly in the
annals of human history.

The

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Demonstrating unprecedented courage and heroism the Soviet
army and the entire Soviet people smashed the nazi war machine
and destroyed Hitlerism. The nazi army, which considered itself in-
vincible could not stand up to the might of the Soviet Armed Forces,
to the army of the new socialist system that was upholding the

honor, freedom and independence of its country and peace and pro-
gress throughout the world.

banners of the smashed German divisions were carried into Red Squ d
along with Hitler's plans for world conquest. Square Ast ting

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