Word: bessarabia
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...This week, after several days of inactivity (probably waiting for supplies to catch up), Marshal Konev's Central Ukrainian Army pushed across the Prut River and resumed its southward and westward march, narrowing the Nazi escape corridor from the Ukraine and at the same time mopping up Bessarabia and penetrating Rumania proper...
Barrier Breaching. In Bessarabia last week the air was thick with the aroma of apple blossoms and Marshal Ivan Konev was there to enjoy it. Even more he could enjoy the knowledge that his was the major credit for breaking through one compartment after another of the Ger man defenses...
...British troops as well as Russian. This week an unnamed diplomat in Switzerland threw back his cloak just long enough to reveal what he said would be the Allied answer: strikingly parallel terms, except a reminder to Rumanians that northern Bukovina would have to go back with Bessarabia...
...hardy, Russia-hating Magyars, this preference for spineless, graft-ridden Rumanians was the last straw. As the Nazis clamped down on Hungary, hitherto their most obliging satellite, the landowning lords of the Hungarian plain toyed with a desperate plan: to strike into Rumania before the Russians could cross Bessarabia...
German civilians bombed out of the Reich were "advised" to leave Rumania within ten days. In Bessarabia, boys of 16-18 were called for military service. Ships were being massed in Rumania's ports to evacuate the battered, impatient Axis troops in Nikolayev, Odessa, the Crimea...