the authentic voice of Russia, and there are many reasons
why last Monday's speech is of special note. It was delivered on the twenty-seventh anniversary of the Russian revolution, a revolu- tion which through the last decade and more has been steadily shedding its earlier extravagances and taking a constructive turn which alone has made possible Russia's signal military achieve- ments in the present war. It was delivered on the fourth war-time anniversary of the revolution, and the measure of attainment between the third anniversary and the fourth is immense. As Marshal Stalin put it, during the past year the Germans have been chased from the Soviet Union, from France, Belgium and Central Italy, and military operations have been transferred to German territory. It is true that so far only the fringe of that territory has been touched, but no one can doubt that the German predictions of vast impending blows against their fatherland are accurate, or that Marshal Stalin is justified (whatever precise interpretation be given to his words) in declaring that the United Nations are on the threshold of the triumphant completion of the war against Hitlerite Germany. That is the conclusion to which the Marshal's relentlessly objective survey of the situation today inevitably points.
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