it had to see for itself what the invasion of Antoneseu's
fascist troops meant to the Soviet Union, ....
1 shall not cite a great number of facts to show what the
invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany and her satellites
meant. Suffice it to refer to the document published for gen-
eral information on September 13, 1945, by the Extraordi-
nary State Commission of the U.S.S.R. for Ihe Establishment
and Investigation of the Grimes of the German Invaders and
their Allies in the Territory of the Soviet Union. This Ex-
traordinary State Commission, composed of outstanding pub-
lic men, was set up by the highest organ of the U.S.S.R.,
the Supreme Soviet.
Here is what the document published by -this Commission
says about the results of the brigand altac/k by Germany and
her satellites on the Soviet Union:
Germany and her former satellites "completely or par-
tially destroyed or burned down 1,710 towns and over 70,000
villages; burned down or demolished over 6,000,000 build-
ings and deprived about 25,000,000 people of shelter. Among
the demolished or most heavily damaged towns are some of
the largest industrial and cultural centres, such as Stalin-
grad, Sevastopol, Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Odessa, Smolensk,
Novgorod, Pskov, Orel, Kharkov, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Doix
and many others."
Germany and her former satellites "destroyed 31,850
industrial enterprises, which employed about 4,000,000 work-
ers; they destroyed or carried away 239,000 electric motors
and 175,000 metal-cutting lathes. They destroyed 65,000 kil-
ometres of railway track, 43100 railway stations, 36,000 post
and telegraph offices, telephone exchanges and other com-
munications establishments.
"They destroyed or wrecked 40,000 hospitals and other
medical institutions, 84,000 'schools, colleges, higher educa-
tional establishments and research institutes, and 43,000