The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-17

German luftwafSe and has given the army strong support in check ing the German offensive against Moscow. It Is true, as Staiin has im- piled, that the Russians are out- numbered ia the air. The Red bomber force appears to be weak, but, ir the MfG-S, the Russians have produced one of the best Glght- CT planes of the war. This compact machine, with Q liquid.cooled eIa- zine, Is believed to be faster and easier to maneuver than the Ger man Messerschmitt iO0. The Rus- stan plane Is equal in many respects to the British Spitfire, generally considered the best fighter plane of the war. And in addition, am able to reveal, this Russian fighter plane is equipped with 8 secret weapon which a foreign general described to me as the only really new tnven' ton of this war.
 4. Josef Stalin, the "Man of Steel', is determined to defeat Adolf Hitler and his country is solidly be. hind him. He retains firm control of the three forces which count most in the Soviet Union - the Communist party, the army and the NEVD (Internal Security Organi- zation-secret pollce). AS long az this holds true, e Russian internal collapse would seem to be unlikely.
 s. As result of their failure so far to smash the Red army, the Ger mans apparently will have to spend this winter on the frozen Russian plains. The German losses have been great-I have heard their cas- ualties estimated all the way from 100000 to Stalin's figure of 4,500,- 900. Nevertheless, morale of the German troops undoubtedly is high.
 6. The fact that the Red army continues to exist as an effective fighting force interferes with any plans the Germans may have had to strike southwRrd during this winter.
 The above is the favorable side of the balance.
 Unfavorable Facts
 The Russians would be the last to deny that many factors are de- cidedly against them. Five months of war has cost the Soviet forces much valuable material and many trained officers and men. Soviet losses were particularly high in the Upraine. Some foreign observers be- lieve that Marshal Semyon Budenny lost one third of his men and about half of his gnaterial. It also was re- ported that the Russians remained to olong in Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine, and suffered additional heavy losses.
 Tn addition to their purely mih- tary losses, the Russians have lost some of their richest Sarmlands.
 They have had to sacrifice air- plane factories at MinSk, dams. power plants and manganese mines along the lower Dnieper river, great industrial planes at Kiev and Khar. kov, and the shipyards at Nikolaev and Odessa.
 Further iosses probably cannot be avoided because of the exposed Rus- sian positions around Moscow. Len. kS&&e &A &AkA &s@@b&Ns
 Soviet newspapers claimed that new factories established in the Urals and in eastern Siberia under the second and third ftve-year plans are producing fer more than theli quotas.
 The Russians made no pgetense. however, that these new plants fully compensAte for the factories lost.
 British and American deliveries of airplanes, tanks, and other inateg- ials during October were ahead Of schedule. The amount of the de. MveTies was as nothing. however, compared to the amount of arms and munitions lost by the Russians that month on the haEtleGlelds.
 Striking 6 balance, it is clear that Russia is in much better position than most foreign experts foresaw when the German invasion started. yt is doubtful, however, that the Russian armed forces will be able to assume any strong offensive role unless Britain and the United states succeed ln making iaFge-acale de- liverles ef war materials t0 the 9o- N&ma 8XnanM. 4