So_much secrecy has been maintained by Soviet Russia about the strength of its armed forces that the only. persons qualified to. soy whether or not the Nasis can full their pro mise tothe German people to. crush Russia within eight weeks or so, are the Soviet leaders themselves. The rest of the world, however, knows something of the strength of the Rus. sian forces and, while those forces are' undoubtedly not as' efficient as those of the Nazis,
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