On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union [antikvár]

radio address JULY 3, 1941 C OMRADES, citizens, brothers and sisters, men of our army and navy. My words are addressed to you, dear friends! The perfidious military attack by Hitler Germany on our motherland, begun on June 22, is Continuing. In spite of liie heroic resistance of the Red Army and although the enemy's finest divisions and finest air units have already been shattered and have met their doom on the battlefield, the enemy continues to push forward, hurling fresh forces into the fray. Hitler's troops have succeeded in capturing Lithuania, a considerable part of 'Latvia, the western part of Byelorussia and part of Western Ukraine. The fascist aircraft are extending the range of their operations, bombing Murmansk, Orsha, Moghilev, Smolensk, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol. Grave danger overhangs our country. How could it have happened that our glorious Red Army surrendered a number of our cities and districts to the fascist troops? Are the German fascist troops really invincible as the braggart fascist propagandists are ceaselessly trumpeting? Of course not! History sho'ws that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been. Napoleon's army was considered invincible, but it was beaten successively by the troops of Russia, England and Ger-