Stating tha® this would have to be 9 ruthless campaign against all Gisorganizers "in the rear, panieangers, rumour spreaders, spies, saboteurs and enemy. parachullsts, M. Stalin urged Russians to remember the practices of the enemy who was experienced in deeclt and the spreading of false rumours.
Stressing the necessity to create unbearable conditions for the enemy and all his accomplices in the myad.
areas, he said the war against Fascist Germany could not be regarded as an ordinary war, Tt was not only a war between two armies Dut w great war of the whole Soviet people against German" Fascist troops, The object of this national war inst the Fascist invaders was not only to avert the danger overhang ing Russia but also to help all. the peoples of Europe groaning under the yoke of German Fascism, "In this war of liberation we shall not be alone. In this shall have faithful peoples of Europe and America including the German people itself pressed by Hitler's satraps, War for Freedom "Our war for the freedom of our fatherland is merged into a struggle the peoples of Europe and America for their independence and freedom. It is a united front of the for freedom threat of enslavement by Witler's Fascist armies, This is the meaning of the historic statement of the British Prime Minister, Mr, Churchill, "about ald to the Soviet Union and of the declaration of the Government of the United States concerning their readiness to give assistance to our country.
"Comrades, our forces are united to their fullest. The arrogant enemy will soon have to realize this. The Red Army represents the workers, collective farmers and intelligentsia rising fo Aght the invader. Let us nisse in the millions of our working people. The workers of Moscow and Toningrad have already begun encergetically to create a national army to support the Red Army. Every nation which 1s threatened with Invasion must, create such a national army and must raise all the workers order that they should "defend with their bodies, their freedom, their honour and' their country in the national war against German Fascism.
"A slate committee of defence has been created. The entire power of the state has been concentrated in its hands. It has already begun to Aunetion. "T appeal fo the whole people to organize itt around the party of Lenin and around' the Soviet Government in order to support with self-denial the Red Army and Navy in order to annihilate the enemy for cur vietory."—Reuter.
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