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Citizens! Brothers and sisters!

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Men of our Army and Navy!

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I am addressing you, my friends!

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The perfidious military attack

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on our motherland begun on June 22

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by Hitlerite Germany is continuing.

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In spite of the heroic resistance

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of the Red Army, and although the enemy's

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finest divisions and finest air-force units

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have already been smashed and

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have met their doom on the field of battle

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the enemy continues to push forward,

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hurling fresh forces into the attack.

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Hitler's troops have succeeded in capturing

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Lithuania, a considerable part of Latvia,

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the western part of Belorussia,

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and part of the Western Ukraine.

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The fascist air force is extending the
range of operations of its bombers,

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and is bombing Murmansk, Orsha, Mogilev,
Smolensk, Kiev, Odessa and Sevastopol.

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A grave danger hangs over our country.

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How could it have happened that our
glorious Red Army surrendered

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a number of our cities and
districts to fascist armies?

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Is it really true that German
fascist troops are invincible,

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as is ceaselessly trumpeted by the boastful
fascist propagandists? Of course not!

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History shows that there are no invincible
armies and never have been.

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Napoleon's army was considered invincible
but it was beaten successively

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by Russian, English and German armies.

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Kaiser Wilhelm's German Army in the period of the
first imperialist war was also considered invincible,

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but it was beaten several times by
the Russian and Anglo-French forces

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and was finally smashed by the Anglo-French forces.

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The same must be said of Hitler's
German fascist army today.

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This army had not yet met with serious
resistance on the continent of Europe.

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Only on our territory has it met serious resistance.

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And if, as a result of this resistance, the finest
divisions of Hitler's German fascist army ,

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have been defeated by our Red Army it means
that this army too can be smashed

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and will be smashed as were the armies
of Napoleon and Wilhelm.

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As to part of our territory having nevertheless
been seized by Germany fascist troops,

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this is chiefly due to the fact that the war of fascist
Germany on the USSR began under conditions

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favorable for the German forces and
unfavorable for Soviet forces.

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The fact of the matter is that the troops of Germany,
as a country at war, were already fully mobilized ...