The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-23

teal success and occupied the small towns of KAlNAria, SeoyAnoW and TsekhanovetR. the first two oe which arc 10 miles and the third six miles from the frontier,
 '~T1o enemy air force attacked . number of our AtrSfromes and popu. lated places but met everywhere . resolNte reeOff from our fighters and Nntl~aiFcraet artillery which in- flleted heavy losses no the enemy, We brought down es enemy asr- craft"
 RNsslAs military machine swung into operation swiftly and smoothly,
 The supreme Soviet decreed Q state oe general mobilization In the IS most important military districts fronting Finland, Poland, Germany and Rumania, including the districts of Lenlngrad, Moscow, tho Ukraine, White Russia, Arohangol, In the Arctics central Russia and the northern caucasus,
 lA Military Glasses
 Fourteen military olAsseS-yMen born In the years leoS Co 1sle in- oluslve-were called to losM the formidable army already under arms,
 Military authorsties were empow. cred to mobilize labor, take over dwellings for hilletlng, take over public and private property, regulate working hours in all enterprises end regulate trade, business and public utilities,
 1t was not until % minutes after Germany had attacked that the German ambassador. Coun Werner Von Dor Schulenherg, announced to Molotov 0ermany's decision to at. tack,
 By that time tho Germans already had bombed the cities of Ghttosni and Kiev, in the Ukraine, KaNnas, capital of LithuAnia, and Sehastopol in the CrlMea, killing CT woundin2 more than 200 persons,
 Molokev, in his address in behalf of Premier Josef StAlin, urged the people to unita for defense of Rus- sia and to "repUlse the bandit at- tack of the Fascist rulers"
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 It was noted that Molotov used the word "0techestvenny-Father- land-in asking the people to unito, Russian historians call the war against Napoleon the war for tho Tatherlard,
 There was firm relief that the greater the German attack the greater would be unity among all Russians, No cause In history has ever rallied the Russian people iike 6 foreign invasion,
 Vasiln Molokov, chief of civil Avia. tion, announced that the entire civil defense force had been put in full combat preparedness, It was dis closed that Marshal 6, K, Timoslaen. ko, the war commissar, had been long preparing end eeerganixiAg the army to meet Q German attack, He had eliminated political eomMissars' influence in the army and thus glv- en officers Allengeable author ity, Armament plans staffs had been kept in training. People of many key districts had received training in combating parachutists,
 Fate Of Many Nations
 Moscow, June 2S tUPa - Esnilyan Yaroslavsky, ofileial so- viet historian, wrote In the news. paper pFavda today that the fate of doaens of nations in Europe, Asia and elsewhere depends upon the outcome of the Soviet.d German war.
 Arising in invineihle mighty force 200 900 900 people of the Soviet Union will wipe of the earths sur- face these (derInan) hangmen and annihilate deeisively these sore spots of Fascist infection in order to se- cure peace and independent exist- enoe," he wrote
 Tn an article, headlined "the great war for the fatherland", he said Russia aspired for peace but at the same time carefully watched all the suspicious preparations and steps of Fascist Germany, which In Hitler's words were aimed ct Fascist hegemony In Europe and recognition by all European states of Q Fascist new order"
 This new order finds expression, as is well known," he continued, "ln incredibly beastly persecution and enslavement of the working class, workers of whole countries and peo- ples, not to mention the fact that Germany itself has become c vast concentration camp" - -