Word: bessarabia
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...Rumania to give Bessarabia back to Russia, help in driving German troops from Rumanian soil...
...Zhukov's greatest tactical gain was his blow at Nazi communications. He cut the Odessa-Lwów railroad. Three German armies still in the Ukraine had now lost their last rail line of escape, would have to retreat along the muddy country roads of Bessarabia and the Ukraine, or from the Black Sea's battered ports. Manstein apparently had waited too long to pull...
...five youngest republics grew out of the war. When Hitler attacked Poland, the Red Army moved westward, converting the three independent Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into Soviet Republics. There was a solemn plebiscite. Next, Russia took Bessarabia back from Rumania (she had lost it in World War I) and renamed it the Moldavian Republic. Finally the Russian part of the Karelian Isthmus, plus a slice of Finland conquered in 1940, was set up as the Karelo-Finnish Republic, and the pattern of border buffer republics was complete. The land of the Great Russians, the Russian Soviet Federal...
...Russian drive, but it did not necessarily imperil the Russian position. Behind the army of General Nikolai Vatutin lay a snow-swept steppe which offered the Germans no rich prize. By throwing all their waning strength into this battle the Germans betrayed their own fears-for the Bug, Bessarabia, the uneasy Balkans...
...recognize Mussolini's bogus Fascist Republic last September, the men of Budapest had guessed wrong too often. From Moscow came clear hints that even Rumania might fare better in the settlements than anti-Slav, anti-Communist Hungary. To the Kremlin, Rumania under a changed regime (and minus Bessarabia) might yet become a friend, worthy to receive Transylvania; Budapest would remain the center of anti-Russian plots, a handy spearhead for any future German Drang nach Osten. It would take a mighty swing inside Hungary to shake the Russian view...