Evening star., 1943-02-23

strength.
Helpless Outside Textbook.
They apply their tactics in ac-
cordance with textbooks, endeavor-
ing to fit events at the front into
paragraphs of their regulations.
The Germans are accurate and ex-
act in their operations when the sit
uation allows the requirements of
their regulations to be carried out.
This is where their strength lies.
The Germans become helpless when
the situation gets complicated and
does not correspond with this or
that paragraph in their regulations.
but requires adoption of an inde-
pendent decision not provided for in
the regulations,
1t is here that their main weak
ness lies These are the causes
which determined the defeat Of the
German troops and the successes of
the Red Army in the last three
months.
1t does not follow from this, how
ever, that the Hitlerite Army is fin
ished and the Red Army has now
only to pursue 1t to the western
frontiers of our country. To think
thus would mean to fall into unwise
and harmful self-deception. To
think thus would mean to overesti-
mate our own strength, underesti-
mate the strength of the enemy and
to fall into adventurism.
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but he is not yet conquered. The
German Fascist army is experience
ing a crisis because of the blows it
has received from the Red Army
but this does not yet mean that
it cannot recover.
The struggle against the German
invaders is not yet ended-it is only
developing and f1aring up as yet.
1t would be stupid to suppose the
Germans will give up even l kilo-
meter of our land without a struggle.
Heavy Fight Faced.
The Red Army has before it a
severe struggle against the cunning,
cruel and as yet strong enemy. This
struggle viii require time and tsacri-
/ fees, rexertion on the part Of our
forces and mobilization of all our
possibilities. --,.-
We. have begun the liberation of
the Soviet Ukraine, from German
possession, but millions Of Ukrain-
ians still are languishing under the
yoke of German enslavers. In Byelo-
Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia,
| in Moldavia, in Crimea. in Koarelia,
German invaders and their accom-
plices still hold sway.
Enemy armies have received pow
erful blows but the enemy Is not
yet conquered. The German in
vaders are furiously resisting, are
launching counterattacks, are striv-
ing to cling to their defense lines
and may enter into fresh adven-
| lures.
That is why there can be no place
in our ranks for complacency, care
| free attitude or swank.
The Soviet people are joyful con-
cerning the victories of the Red
armies.
| But men, commanders and politi-
cal workers should firmly remember
the behest of our teacher. Lenin,
that "the first thing is not to be
| carried away by victory or to swag-
ger; the second thing is to CONSOLE
| date victories; the third thing to de-
feat the enemy completely"
| For the sake of liberation OF our
country from the hated enemy, for
the sake of final victory over the
German Fascist invaders order:
One, continually to perfect mill
tary training and strengthen dis
cipline. order and organization
throughout the Red Army and Navy
Give Nazis No Rest.
Two strengthen the blows on the
enemy troops constantly and stub
bornly and give him no chance to
consolidate a defense line, to give
him no rest by day or by night, to
cut enemy communications, to sur
round enemy troops and annihilate
them If they refuse to lay down their
arms.
Three, to fan more extensively the
| flames of guerrilla warfare in the
rear of the enemy, to destroy enemy
communications, to blow up rail-
way bridges, to hamper the trans
port of enemy troops, the transport
of arms and ammunition, to blow up
and set fire to army stores, to raid
enemy garrisons, to prevent the re-
treating enemy from burning down
our villages and towns, to help the