Word: bryansk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pushed to within nine miles of Sumy, 20 of Bryansk, 25 of Poltava...
Farther north, the maiden's soldier only a month before had begun his attack against Orel, opening with a devastating barrage from (dispatches said) 3,000 gun barrels to a mile of front. Now he was pushing crack young German troops back on Bryansk and fighting 1,000 German planes a day that hammered at his ad vance...
...North of Bryansk, the maiden's soldier attacked at Spas Demensk...
...Bryansk falls, the Red Army can turn northwest toward Smolensk, the nerve center of the German defense sys tem on the central front. In the Nazi-owned Stockholm Dagsposten a Berlin correspondent reported: If the German Army is unable to hold the Russian advance, Germany will collapse. Not only Red soldiers but the Nazis were beginning to see the maiden's light...
...Objectives. The Russian push toward Bryansk, if successful, would open the path to Smolensk as well as yield the Russians control over the six main rail roads radiating from Bryansk. The pincers movement converging on Kharkov threat ens the German-occupied Donets basin, most valuable prize of the Nazis in Russia...