Last spring-after notable victories at stalingrad and in Tunisia and against the U-boats on the high seas-overconfidence became so pronounced that war production fell off.
"Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present"
Various
Not the stark, foul streets of stalingrad, not the workers with their vapid faces or the Comrades with their cautious, sweating, trembling, fearful non-decisions, not the higher echelon of Comrades, more frightened but showing it less, who would love the beauty of her breasts and loins but not herself for you never love anything but the Stalinimage and Mother Russia herself, not those terrified martinet-marionettes who would love the parts of her if she permitted but not her or any other person for that matter.
"Voyage To Eternity"
Milton Lesser