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t jeder of the Day No. 195, issued by the Supreme Comman-

}a-Chief on May 1, 1943, reads as follows:

E JMRADES, men of the Red Army and Red Navy, com-
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ressors!

"tthe name of the Soviet gov-
“ent and of our Bolshevik
I greet you and congratu-

fou on the joccasion of May
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a peoples of our country are
- greeting on May First in the

ue of a grim, patriotic war.
_) have entrusted their fate to
eee Army, and their hopes
not disappointed. Soviet
jors staunchly came to the
ise of their Motherland and
“Siearly two years have been
iding the honor and inde
ence of the peoples of the
it Union. x
ring the winter campaign of
18, the Red Army inflicted
as defeats upon  MHitler’s
is, took heavy tolls of the
WS manpower and equip-
, encircled and liquidated
enemy armies at Stelinerad,
prisoners of more than
r™aj0 enemy soldiers and offi-
liberated hundreds of Sovi-
‘wns and thousands of vil-
from the German yoke.
Me winter campaign showed
the offensive might of the
4 Army has grown, Our troops
Jonly dislodged the Germans
territory captured by them
%e summer of 1942, but also
}oied a number of cities and
tects which had been in the

S of the enemy some 18
hs. The Germans lacked
‘eth to prevent the Red

~'s offensive.
'n for the counter-offensive
marrow sector of the front
ie Kharkoy area, the Hitler-
command was obliged to
NW sfer more than 30 new divi-
§ from Western Europe. The
Aans calculated on encircling
Het troops in the Kharkov
and organizing “a German
merad’’ for our troops. Never-
2ss, the attempt or the Hitler
mand to take revenge for
Wgrad failed.

the same time the victorious
ps of our Allies defeated the
an and German troops in
fa and ‘Tripolitania, cleared
@ areas of the enemy and are
| continuing to smash him in
isia, while the valiant Anglo-
‘rican air forces are delivering
thing blows to war industry
ihe centres of Germany and
¥, heralding the creation of
cond front against the Italian
| German fascists in Europe.

Se

US for the first time in this
war, a blow delivered by the
Army in the east merged
i a blow delivered by the
‘PS of our allies in the west
a united, common blow.
ll these facts taken together
© shaken the Hitler war ma-
ie to its foundations, changed
eourse of the world war and
ited the necessary prerequis-
| for victory over Hitler Ger-
iy.
8 a result the enemy was
fed to admit a serious wors-
lig of his position and began
fshout about a war crisis. True,
: enemy is trying to disguise
critical position with clamor
ut “total” mobilization.

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working men and women, men and women farmers,
y de engaged in intellectual work!
. have temporarily fallen under the yoke of the German

Brothers- and sisters

But no hullaballoo can change
the fact that the camp of the
fascists is actually experiencing a
grave crisis.

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pee erisis in the fascist camp

is expressed primarily in the
fact that the enemy is obliged
openly to abandon his original po-
sition of banking on blitzkreigc.
Tali of blitzkreig is no longer
in vogue in the camp of the en-
emies—noisy blabber about blitz-
lreig has been succeeded by de-
spondent whining about the inev-
itabilily of a protracted war.

Whereas in the past the Ger-
man fascist command boasted of
tactics of a lightning offensive,
these tactics have now been dis-
carded and the German fascists
are no longer bragging that they
have carried out or intend to
conduct lightning offensives, but
of the skill with which they suc-
ceeded in getting away from the
enveloping blow of British troops
in North Africa or from encirele-
ment by Soviet troops im the
Demyansix area. The fascist press
is filled with boastful reports
that German troops succeeded in
fleeing from the front and eyad-
ing a new Stalingrad in one or
another sector of the eastern or
Tunisian fronts. Apparently the
Hitlerite strategists have nothing
else to boast of.

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HE crisis in the fascist camp

is expressed, secondly, in that
the fascists are more and more
frequently speaking of peace.
Judging from foreign press re-
ports, ene could conclude that the
Germans would dike peace with
Britain and the U.S.A. on the con-
dition of their break “with the
Soviet Union, or vice versa they
would like peace with the Soviet
Union on the condition of its
break with Britain and the
U.S.A.

Themselves steeped in perfidy,
the German imperialists have the
arrogance to measure the Allies
by their own yardstick, presum-
ing that some of the Allies may
fall for their bait. It is clear
that it is not because their af-
fairs are good that the Germans
are babbling about peace. Babble
about peace in the camps of the
fascists merely indicates that they
are experiencing g severe crisis.

But what kind of peace can
there be with imperialist brig-
ands from the German fascist
eamp who drenched Europe with
blood and covered it with gal-
lows? Is it not clear that only
the complete rout of the Hitlerite
armies and the unconditional sur-
render of Hitlerite Germany can
lead Europe to peace? Is it not
because they sense the approach
of imminent disaster that Ger-
man fascists are chattering about

peace?
The German-Italian fascists
camp is undergoing a severe

crisis and is facing catastrophe.
This does not mean of course

that the catastrophe of Hitler
Germany already has arrived.
Wot at all. Hitler Germany 2nd

cher army are shaken and is un-

dergoing a Crisis, but they are

not yet smashed.

It would beenemy still

Stalin

naive to think that catastrophe
will come automatically and
spontaneously.-Two or three more
powerful blows from west and
east such as that inflicted on the
Hitler army in the last five or
Six months are necessary for the
eatastrophe of Hitler Germany
to become real.

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OR this reason the people of

the Soviet Union and their
Red army, as well as our Allies
and their armies, still face a
stern and hard struggle for com-
plete victory over the Hitlerite
fiends. °

This struggle will demand of
them ereat sacrifices, enormous
Slaying power and iron stauch-
ness. They must mobilize all their
forees and possibilities to smash
the enemy and thus blaze the
road to peace. -

Comrades, the Soviet people
display the greatest solicitude for
their Red army. They are ready
to give all their forces for the
further strengthening of the
might of the Soviet country.

in less than four months the

peoples of the Soviet Union don-

ated more than 7,000,000,000
roubles to the jRed Army fund.
This demonstrates once more that
the war against the Germans is
truly a national war of all peo-
ples inhabiting the Soviet Union.

Without folding their hands,
staunchly and courageously fac-
ing the hardships caused by war,
the workers, collective farmers,
and intellectuals work at factor-
ies and in institutions, on trans-
port and in collective farms and
state farms.

But war against the German
fascist invaders demands that the

Red army receive still more
guns, tanks, aircraft, machine-
guns, automatic rifles, mortars,

ammunition, equipment and pro-
visions,

Hence, it is necessary that
workers, collective farmers’ and
all Soviet intellectuals work with
redoubled energy for the front.

It is necessary that all our peo-
ple and all institutions in the
rear work with the efficiency and
precision of good clockwork.

Tet us recall the request of
ereatness: Once war is proved in-
evitable, everything for the war,
and the least slackness and lack
of energy must be punished by
wartime laws.”

In return for the confidence
and solicitude of its people, the
Red army must strike at the
more strongly and

sian people.

The merging of blows in the East and
West have changed the course of
the world war, created the prerequi-
sites for victory over Hitler Germany,
and heralded opening of the second
front, declares Premier Stalin in his
May Ist order of the day to the Rus-

exterminate mercilessly the Ger-

man invaders and drive them in-

cessantly out of the Soviet land.
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IN the course of the war the

Red army has acquired rich

military experience. Hundreds of

thousands of Red army men
learned to wield their arms to
perfection. Many commanders

learned to skilfully direct troops
in the field of action. But it would
be unwise to rest at that.

Men must learn to handle their
weapons with skill, commanders
must become experts in waging
war. But even this is not enough.
In military matters, and all the
more in a2 war such as the pres-
ent war, it is impermissible to
stand still. In military matters
this means lagging behind. And
as is known, those who lag be-
hind are beaten. Therefore the
all-important thing at present is
that the whole Red army per-
fects its training day after day,
that all commanders and Red
Armymen study the experience of
war, that they learn to fight in
the way demanded by the cause
of victory.

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OMRADES, men of the Red

Army and Red Navy, com-
manders and political instructors,
men and women partisans! In
greeting and congratulating you
on the occasion of May Day I
hereby order:

(1) That all troops —infantry-
men, mortar crews, artillerymen,
tank men, airmen, sappers, sig-
nalmen, cavalrymen — continue
tirelessly to perfect their fight-
ing skill, promptly carry out the
orders of their commanders, reg-
ulations and instructions, sacred-
ly observe discipline, organization
and order.

(2) That commanders of all
branches of the service and com-
manders of combined forces be-
come expert in the leadership of
the troops, that they skilfully or-
ganize the interaction of all arms
and direct them in battle. That
the enemy be studied, the reco-
naissance—the eyes and ears of
the army—be improved, to re-
member that without this the en-
emy cannot be beaten for a Cer-
tainty. That the work of the
army staffs be improved, to see
to it that staffs of units and for-

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mations of the Red Army be-
come model organs directing the
troops. That the work of the
army’s rear services be raised to
the level demanded by the pres-
ent war, and to remember thor-
oughly that the outcome of mili-
tary operations depends on full
and timely supplies of arms, mu-
nitions, equipment and provisions
reaching the troops.

(3) That the entire Red Army
consolidates and follows up the
successes of the winter battles,
that it yields not an inch of our
soil to the enemy, that it be pre-
pared for decisive battles against
the German fascist invaders. That
in defense it displays the stub-
borness and fortitude common to
the men of our army. That in the
offensive it displays determina-
tion, proper interaction of troops,
bold manoeuvring on the battle-
field crowned by the encirclement
and destruction of the enemy.

(4) That men and women guer-
Tillas deliver hammer blows to
the enemy’s rear, transporation
facilities, army stores, headquart-
ers and enterprises, wreck the
enemys communications. That
they draw broad sections of the
Soviet people in the occupied dis-
tricts into active liberation strug-
gle, thereby saving Soviet citi-
zens from being driven into Ger-
man slavery and from extermina-
tion by the Hitlerite beasts. That
they wreak ruthless vengeance on
the German invaders for the
blood and tears of our wives and
children, mothers and fathers,
brothers and sisters. That they
exert every effort to help the
Red Army in its struggle against
the base Hitlerite enslavers.

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OMRADES!

The enemy has already felt
the weight of the crushing blows
of our troops. The time is nigh
when the Red Army, together
with the Armies of our Allies, will
break the backbone of the fascist
beast.

Long live our gtorious country!
Long live our valiant Red army!
Long live our valiant navy! Long
live our gallant men and women

guerrillas! Death to the German
invaders!
Signed: Supreme Commander-

in-Chief, Marshal of the Soviet
Union, J. Stalin.

President Roosevelt and President Camaene of Mexico in
Monterry, Mexico. This was the first meeting in 34 years of

the presidents of the two countries,