The German Offensive Has Fallen Apart!

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Boris Efimovich Efimov
(Born Kiev, 1900; died Moscow, 2008)
Aleksei Ivanovich Mashistov
(Birth and death dates unknown)

The German Offensive Has Fallen Apart!, TASS No. 0786, August 9, 1943

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1785 x 660 mm
The battles that were carried out to extinguish the Germans’ July offensive have disproved the legend that the Germans always enjoy success in a summer offensive.

[The map reads: "December."
The document reads: “Strategic Plan for 1942”]

To end German superstitions:
We beat the vermin in Winter...

Inscription on the map:
July.
Inscription on the document:
Plan for Summer Offensive 1943

... and in Summer!
Ne boltai! Collection, Obj: 205866