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Up until Stalingrad, the Germans had met little or no significant resistance.

Victory was supposed to have come swiftly, before winter. I have spoken with Gereman soldiers who sat just 13 kilometers outsideof Moskow and looked through binocolulars at the streetcars moving along in Moscow.