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watch and speaks to the chief of staff: 'You are late, it is time on front occupations' and the last, quickly finishing
a toilet, puts on.
I understood that it is impossible to hesitate, and asked:
Companion major, allow reporting to the chief of front department that I was seconded to a regiment?
Surely, surely...
And I pleased go to front department. PNS (a)4 somewhere is absent. Long I wait for him.
Night. To the shelf there is a movie, do not know what yet. Villages in the convenient location where impudently
crept, despite protests of some persons.
There are no letters still, and it is very interesting that I will be answered by my new addressees.

09.28.1944

In my opinion, a task of the movie not only to give to Americans a concept about courage, heroism and love for
the country which was shown in this war by our people, but also forever to disseminate idea of our country, as
about the country of barbarians which and now still reigns in the heads of Americans. Our high equipment, our
intellectuals, our youth and inexhaustible cultural monuments...
However, most of all for education of world public opinion about us our blood and our fight, in particular our
victories made. When Germans, having easily passed across Europe, took in head to make not less fast and
successful walk across Russia, all progressive world (unambiguously tells the movie about it), considered that
Russia Days are considered. One by one the cities and villages under force of the German impact fell. Germans
went easily, vigorously and haughty believed that Russia will fall on knees within several weeks. But there was a
miracle.
And the movie shows the battle of Moscow which terminated in checkmate of Germans. Before us the freed cities
of the Moscow and Tula regions, a meeting of the population and the Red Army, tear, joy, kisses. Victims of the
German obscurantism, orphan children, children cripples, dead children and adult innocent citizens. It is
said Russians will never forget.
The overturned enemies run. Absolutely they have other appearance. Fatigue, doubt cover them. Eloquently tell
film frames about it. For the first time during war the Germans are forced to recede. Leningrad continues to
remain even in blockade inexpressible horrors of residents. Pictures of destruction by his Germans are
tremendous. Hunger, norm of food 100 grams of bread a day all this does not demand comments. But people do
not give up work on each shot of the German tool, Leningrad residents answer with increase in rates and
improvement of the quality of work. The dedication of people has no borders. The highway along which to the
utmost (even on strongly thawed ice) cars continue to go is paved on ice in Lake Onega.
Bombings, shellings nothing stops the Soviet patriotic drivers. Leningrad's residents pave the railroad on
ice affairs of Russians are really amazing and wonderworking. But here and release. Two tactics affect in
progress of troops of the Leningrad front, as well as possible.
The movie shows at the same time on the screen of the Soviet and German generals. Here their strategy faced.
Germans recede, blockade of the city of Lenina is liquidated. The Caucasus is freed from Germans, Germans are
expelled from Stalingrad.
Two armies faced, and the movie shows at the same time both that and another on the screen. The Russian
strategy the best in the world. Germans occupied the European countries because they concentrated all the forces
at the borders when Germans crossed them in 41. But the Soviet generals opposed to the German tactics of
lightning destruction of the main enemy forces and a sudden environment of troops, calculated on a permanent
defense and resistance, tactics. And Germans who were sure of destruction of Russia in several weeks appeared
before the fact of a static long warfare. Their former tactics do not work here, in the conditions of Russia.
Here it, twomillion army rushed to the Soviet Union. Germans managed to break the first line which small part
remains surrounded and captivated, but ahead there are second, third, fourth lines. And again the same picture
repeats: the departing troops of the first line merge with the second, second with the third, third with the fourth,
forming, at last, the line of such thickness and persistence against which all efforts of German military break.