SOVIET AGRICULTURE
GREATEST WAR DIFFICULTY
(Rec. noon) , MOSCOW, October 23. Confidence -in^Russia's ability to defeat Germany- was ./expressed by Mr. Kalinin, -■president .of the Soviet Supreme Council; "in "a broadcast to young Russian farm workers.
He said that the Russian losses were not small, but the Germans were losing considerably" more men. . He praised the efforts of industry, as.a result of which the Russian army was better equipped than at the outbreak of war. Russia was producing so many guns that the losses were "being made up and reserves -.built up. ■ ■ Russia's most difficult task;was in the realm of agriculture. -As sa. result of the German seizure iof. the Ukraine' and the Kuban district, a heavy agricultural burden, had been, placed on the. eastern regions, but if this task was efficiently undertaken Russia would emerge victorious.
"When we rout the Germans—and rout them we shall—it will be the task of youth, he said, "to restore what has been destroyed arid build up the world of the future." ■ """"*.:.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 100, 24 October 1942, Page 7
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