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lig Or took prisoners more than
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ih] €fenders died from bombs
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5 8 the progress of the war
» Colone} General Jodl, Hitler’s
PPetations Staff, wrote:

; © discovered that the enemy
Mona, session not only of vast
’ and orc’ but of such a tech-
led ard of war production as
ivth Us to multiply our own ef-
his. War industry.”

Ky, : Written at a time when the,
t More.» in its second year and,
hgh aoe 290 million people
‘many Urope continued to work

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tthe we marking a turning
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then Te than a fourth of all the
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Pris high-ranking officers
Meng Ue2ded by Field-Marshall
taken prisoner of war.

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Hep Strategic offensive

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A, On th Command staked all
A deca € “Citadel” operation,
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Bel Russia. of Kursk, a town
if 0,009 Germans concentrated
inet troops with 10,000 guns
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#2),,..° heavy losses, but by
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. Whien army took up the of-
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“DDture ™My across the Dnieper
UP Kigy 4 the capital of the Uk-
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3 Sushi: The Second Front.

, he a 8 defeat of nazism
Btet yet of 1944 the whole of

RY anon Fad been cleared of
Uma... Uermany’s allies —
out ania and Bulgaria — had
Hh, also me war. The Soviet
N Slay: cberated large sections
Mi, ’ng ? ~2echoslovakia, Norway

1), OVie :
( a ie Union’s economic posi-
Memiprostantially improved,
(te 5, tary appropriations for
ling Percent above those of
Hr. 2
¥ 3 the Second World War
MySay, 1°4 its last phase: after
ted the ¢ second Front was
fi, Allieg Soviet Union together
UBF o° soy) -88N to wage the war
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PAY op Ver the biggest landing
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‘it But 5 © Opening of the Sec-
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Tanks on Moscow's Gorki Street on November 7, 1941

relating to the Soviet Union began to
operate effectively only after the Stalin-
grad battle, when the relationship of
forces between Germany and the USSR
had taken a definite turn in favour of
the latter. Through this channel] the
Soviet Union obtained 2 percent of its
artillery, some 10 percent of its tanks
and.aircraft and a much larger percent-
age of its automobile fleet.

The last offensive of the Soviet army
in World War II on the European con-
tinent was launched April 16, 1945 and
ended with the storming and capture
of Berlin. On May 8, in the presence of
representatives of the Allied. armies,
the _German Field’ Marshal Keytel
signed the unconditional capitulation
of Hitler Germany.

Continuation of war in the
Far East

Germany’s defeat signified the end
of the Second World War on the Euro-

aot Se. sie
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April 25, 1945, the Re

pean continent. In the Far East, how-
ever, the hostilities threatened to drag
on for some years yet. The Soviet
Union, loyal to its allied commitments,
on August 8 declared war on imperial
Japan. In the course of the fighting
there, Soviet units put out of action
more than 80,000 Japanese officers and
soldiers, captured 594,000 of them and
completely destroyed the crack Kwan-
tung army. This was greatly instrumen-
tal in routing Japan who was forced
to capitulate September 2, 1945.

The Second World War unleashed by
fascist Germany and her allies brought

devastation and death to millions of ©

people throughout the world and ended

in a crushing defeat for the aggressors.
e

The Soviet Union paid very dearly

for its victory: some 2,000 towns and

villages. were destroyed or burned

down and the material damage was

d Banner flies from the Reichstag

tremendous. But the biggest and most
irretrievable loss of all «.s the death
of 20 million Soviet people.

The Second World War demon-
strated the strength of the Soviet sys-
tem and the correctness of the Soviet
national policy. Men of 193 different
nationalities fought in the ranks of the
Soviet Army and committed acts of
imperishible glory: the Russian Alex-
ander Matrosov, the Uzbec Tuichi
Erdjighitov, the Estonian Josif Laar,
the Kirghizian Tuleberdiev covered
enemy embrasures with their own bo-
dies. Twenty eight men of General Pan-
filov’s division, of many different na-
tionalities, died in battle with German
tanks but prevented them from break-
ing through to Moscow. Hundreds of
airmen, on using up all their ammuni-
tion, rammed German planes with their
own, many of them sacrificing their
lives in the exploit. Hero of the Soviet
Union, Capitain Gastello refused to
jump from his burning plane and sent
it direct into the midst of a German
army column. He died but destroyed
hundreds of enemy troops in doing so.

The victory of the Soviet Union over
fascist Germany came as a fresh cor-
roboration of the words of the founder
of the Soviet State, Vladimir Lenin,
that no people defending. its’ power,
which enables it to enjoy all the bene-
fits of culture and all the creations of
human labor, can be defeated.

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