Word: brest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brest-Litovsk, the great Nazi fortress in Poland east of Warsaw, was almost encircled at week's end, and Red artillery was pulverizing its garrison. Joseph Stalin & Co. would no doubt find a saturnine pleasure in dictating peace terms at Brest-Litovsk. It was there, on March 3, 1918, that the Kaiser's men, "sword in hand," laid down their harsh peace terms to the representatives of Trotsky and Lenin...
First to the Sea? In front of East Prussia and of Warsaw to the south, the Germans had four main bastions: Kaunas and Grodno on the Niemen River, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk. Brilliant young General Ivan Chernyakovsky reached the Niemen on a 75-mile front, forced several crossings, established bridgeheads on the west bank, attacked Grodno. Early this week his army was joined there by that of General Georg Zakharov, and Grodno fell...
Marsh Job. Sending his troops slogging through the Pripet Marshes, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky seized Pinsk, after bombarding it from gunboats sent into the Pripet River from the Dnieper. Then he started to erase the German salient in the marshes, at the base of which lay Brest-Litovsk...
...they had known their defenses would collapse like a framework of overstrained girders at the touch of a cutting torch, why had they not pulled clear out of the Baltic countries and eastern Poland, to a shortened line from Konigsberg through Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk to Kovel...
...north, Marshal Bagramian began an encirclement of Dvinsk in Latvia. To the south, Marshal Rokossovsky captured the key junction of Baranovichi, whose railroads lead to Vilna, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk. In the treacherous Pripet Marshes, other Rokossovsky forces skirted the bogs along road and rail embankments, captured Luninets and attacked Pinsk...