Order of the Day
January 25, 1943
To the Troops on the South-West, South, Don, North Caucasus, Voronezh, Kalinin, Volkhov and Leningrad Fronts
As a result of two months of offensive engagements, the Red Army has
broken through the defences of the German-fascist troops on a wide
front, routed 102 enemy divisions, captured over 200,000 prisoners,
13,000 guns and a large quantity of their war material, and advanced
about 252 miles. Our troops have won an important
victory. The offensive of our troops continues.
I congratulate the Red Army men, commanders and political workers of
the South-Western, Southern, Don, North Caucasian, Voronezh, Kalinin,
Volkhov and Leningrad fronts on their victory over the German-fascist
invaders and their allies – the Rumanians, Italians and Hungarians – at
Stalingrad, on the Don, in the North Caucasus, at Voronezh, in the
Velikie Luki area and south of Lake Ladoga.
I thank the Command and the glorious troops who have routed the
Hitlerite armies at the approaches to Stalingrad, who have broken the
blockade of Leningrad and liberated from the German invaders the towns
of Kantemirovka, Belovodsk, Morozovsky, Millerovo, Starobelsk,
Kotelnikovo, Zimovniki, Elista, Salsk, Mozdok, Nalchik, Mineralniye
Vody, Pyatigorsk, Stavropol, Armavir, Valuiki, Rossosh, Ostrogozhsk,
Velikie Luki, Schluesselburg, Voronezh and many other towns and
thousands of populated places.
Forward to the rout of the German invaders and their expulsion from the boundaries of our Motherland!
Moscow, Kremlin
January 25, 1943
J. Stalin
Supreme Commander-in-Chief
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