of. well-trained { by a galaxy of brilliant erals are Sweeping forward ne of the greatest military mpaigns in all history. q Despite ihe ‘formidable de- ~ Wises with which the Germans ive reinforced the desolate “H5w-eovered wastes of Nor- ‘ ¥, the lakes, swamps, forests ; ast Prussia, the high-wood- “}' Carpathians in Poland and : Gechslovakia, the Transylva- Alps, the Danube and #ers in ‘Yugaslavia, they are i ding to the irresistible on- : jught of the Soviet armies of ipration. ™\ more difficult battlesround Ra Northern Finland would hard to find. Here is what Gen. ‘Degen, commander of 20. 5 German Alpine Divi- n saul in an order to his a Ops: ; a “The Russians will recoil Al ‘om our strong points. And piving bled them white we y pall proceed with their ex- ?rmination. All the adyvan- OP: ; = iges are on our side. Not- ithstanding political changes 1 Fmland, we must hold Sus front. You know why iis is necessary—we need Op a iekel and copper and more- Sser we must show the Rus- -ans that-here’s a front they ever shall breach.” Mh OW, ten days after that or- ‘der was written the “impreg- ble” front has disappeared, ost of the general’s Alpine excellently-equipped men . dal 20 dhe. grey-misted fjords of northern Norway to the _ placid sunlit waters of the Danube, powerful Soviet uns and planes troops are out of commission, the nickel mines written off, vital bases from which the Al- lied conyoys were attacked are in Red Army hands and the flag of free Norway is flying from the Town Hall in Kirke- nes. But Soviet eyes are glued not on Kirkenes and not on the Balkans. They are focussed on East Prussia. I can recall but two events that have occasioned Sreater joy than the entry of _ Soviet troops into German ter-— ritory: the news telling of Hit- ler’s retreat from Moscow in 1942, the other the encircle- ment of the Germans at Stalin-- grad. With innate simple straight- forwardness Red Army men upon crossing the border chalked on signposts, doors, everywhere, the phrase Thrice Accursed Germany — Here She Is At Last. Every shell sent against crumbling German strong points bears chalked imscriptions, sometimes words for Stalingrad, for Khar- koy. Kiéy, Leningrad, but often the shells bear the name of, towns and villages razed by the Germans. - Yesterday, when the guards- men’ cleared Goering’s hunting forest at Rominten and cap- tured his hunting lodge, one of the guards chalked up on the bars of the lodge-gate, ““We’ve Got the Hunting Ground—Now for the Hunter.” One thing is absolutely certain——there will be no coddling of Germans by the Russian soldiers. Prussian | UCH of the transport ie ties bearing men and supplies deeper into Hast Prussia are produced im American factories. Columns of Studebakers and jeeps fill the roads. German prisoners marching eastward, _eurse “these American ma- chines” that transport Red _ Army men to the west. ie ‘Much credit for the Red Army’s forward surge along — ‘the entire front is due to the magnificent. effort of the Soviet - Union’s 25 million trade union members. During the eight months between the fall of 1941 and the summer of 1942, hun- -dreds of factories were dis- mantled and equipment was ship ed, with a total of one and a qu rter million freight ears, +o the east. While the machin- ery was enr oute, building trades workers remained on the job day and night getting new premises ready. 3) * ers, & PLA. Features, November 18 — Page 3 AE ae of hundreds of thousands of industrial work- trainloads of machinery from the Ukraine and Lenin- grad to the Asiatic side of the Ural Mountains is one of the really big stories of the war. Its writing will enable people of the world to understand this BUSSES miracle. : Despite _ ineredible wartime. hardships, the housing shor- tage, minimum food rations, difficulties of obtaining shoes and clothes, Russia’s trade unionists in 1942 supplied the Red Army with four planes for every plane supplied in 1941, ‘with seven tanks, ' and ten mortars for every tank, eight guns gun and mortar ty has improved with quantity. The latest models of the Yaks and avs are recognized as the “best all-round fighter aircraft ‘Phe Stormovik, ter- a xor of German tank columns, is in service. peveay: Fjords. to the Danube generally admited best of its kind of plane anywhere. A new heavy tank ‘“Kotina” demon- strated its fighting - qualities over the German’ King Tiger. As for the Soviet artillery, if 4,000 Germans killed by gun- fire during the initial bom- bardment of the Hast Prussian fortress could only speak, they. would tell that tale. In “order that gunshells and tanks could be delivered to the . front line for the great offen> sive, railroad workers’ had to-~ repair 18,750 miles of railways i —a distance from Cherbourg all the way across Burope and produced at ~ the beginning of the war. Qualic=: Asia to new factory towns be- yond the Vladivostok and back again. The Urals may have un- familiar sounding names, but their contribution to the swell- ing fund of Allied victory are none the ‘less for all that. With every l-year new subscription or renewal to P.A. a copy of Sabotage will be given free as a seelel offer in this circulation drive. Get your sub now.