We lost land, cities, men; all that can be replaced. But the Party didn't collapse

"We'll fight  to the last man." - "No doubt, but you'll perish all the same. And Stalingrad will remain as the symbol of your defeat. Wrongly, too. In my opinion, you already lost the war last year, when we stopped you in front of Moscow. We lost land, cities, men; all that can be replaced. But the Party didn't collapse, and that was your only hope,

J. Littell, The Kindly Ones (2006) tr. C. Mundell, 396