The morale of Soviet soldiers was improving. ‘I often think of the words of Nekrasov that the Russian people are able to bear everything that God is able to throw at us,’ wrote one soldier. ‘Here in the army one can easily imagine that there is no force on earth which can do away with our Russian strength.’ German morale, on the other hand, was suffering badly. ‘It’s impossible to describe what is happening here,’ a German corporal wrote home. ‘Everyone in Stalingrad who still possesses a head and hands, women as well as men, carries on fighting.’ Another acknowledged that ‘the [Soviet] dogs
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