Looks like you barely pulled through this one!  Still, you lifted the seige.  And that is what was important.  I don't know how many of our citizens have died through the incessant shelling and starvation, but it must be close to a million.  But you have helped save two million other souls.  

Now we must start planning how we can keep the pressure up on Nazis and drive them back into Germany.  Our pressure against the Germans must be relentless.  We must use our advantages in production, in numbers, in the weather to destroy the invaders.
