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The success of the Russian armies has shown that it is dangerous to make prophecies about them--a fact which has been forcibly brought home to that mystic master of strategic intuition, Herr Hitler.
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Roosevelt warns against making predictions about the Russian military's capabilities, referencing Hitler's miscalculations.
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