RUSSIA’S HEAD OF STATE ON WOMEN’S DAY

‘You have the power to do the most important thing – the miracle of the birth of a new life. And the sensitivity and generosity of a mother’s heart, the warmth of a mother’s love, transform and decorate the world around us. Being a mother is a great happiness and at the same time difficult, intense work.

FRANCE – INCONVENIENT HISTORY OF DEFEATS

Despite considerable numerical superiority in troops, tanks and air power and the Maginot Line defenses, France after it declared war on the Third Reich (September 3, 1939) lasted just six weeks against the Reich, which had occupied northern France to deter a D-Day invasion by Britain. Oh, dear! France suffered a loss of two million (killed, wounded, captured).