The Soviets Expected It

The Soviets Expected It presents an excellent picture of the Russian people, their courage, determination and spirit. It presents the peasant, the worker and the soldier, all in the struggle together. Next she analyzes Stalin in this crisis, his earlier doubts of France, of England, of Germany; his open-eyed decision to gain time by a pact with Hitler, and the way in which that time was used. His successive actions in the Baltic, designed to disrupt Hitler’s scheme. Preparations for war, internal and external; equipment and the human elements; the handling of Fifth Column activities. Throughout, the story is personalized by records of her own search for the facts, through interviews, contacts, etc. Her conclusion is inescapably — “Hitler cannot conquer Russia.