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...could do something. Where the Germans were not watching so intently, he built up an explosive force east and north of Stargard. Last week he touched it off as part of a double blast. When the smoke had cleared, the stunned Germans found that the Russians were on the Baltic at two points and had lanced Pomerania into three segments, accomplishing a vast double encirclement. The probable result: destruction of the 200-mile Pomeranian and Polish Corridor front, from which the Germans might have launched an attack on the Russians' long northern flank...
...What statesmanship! What vision! What power! We have known nothing like it since my ancestor, Peter the Great, broke a window into Europe by overrunning the Baltic states in the 18th Century. Stalin has made Russia great again...
Guessing Games. Berlin could wait. The Germans could continue to guess where Red power would strike next. Last week they guessed rightly that some of it would continue to strike toward Stettin, Berlin's Baltic port. Nazi troops slowed the Russians just short of the towered walls of Stargard, Stettin's outer fortress. But there were not enough Germans to meet all the drives now threatening to sew up Pomerania in a giant pocket. East and south of Stettin the Russians made steady advances in other thrusts...
Into the factory city of Oppeln and as close to the battling Red Armies as they could crowd, the Polish Government's plenipotentiaries pushed toward a proposed frontier that would follow the Oder River from the Bohemian mountains through Pomerania to the Baltic...
Flanking Threats. Although Marshal Zhukov aimed his biggest spear at Berlin, his northern wing had pounded to within 20 miles of Berlin's Baltic port of Stettin. That drive threatened to cut off 11,000 square miles of Germany's northeastern province of Pomerania...