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West of Kursk, where the snow was still deep, the Russians still pushed ahead. One column drove to within 25 miles of the Bryansk-Kiev railway, which links the German armies in the Ukraine with those on the northern front. If this drive between the fronts succeeds in cutting that line, the Russians will have made it less easy for the Germans to shift forces laterally from south to north. That would hamper the Germans in their effort to counterattack eventually in the north as they did last week in the south...
...BATTLEFIELDS OF VYAZMA BRYANSK FAR BEHIND FRONT...
...knows the countryside. . . . His wife and his wife's sister were killed by the Germans because they found out that he was a partisan. . . . There were 33 men in Baidek's detachment, ununiformed, heavily armed and determined, roaming over the entire region between Bryansk, Orel and Tula, blowing up bridges, hunting down small groups of Germans, smashing trucks and ambushing artillery. . . . In one operation they freed 200 Russian prisoners. ... Of these 33 guerrillas, 19 survived, seven disappeared, four were killed in battle and three were hanged by the Germans...
...central front, they drove for the important Smolensk-Bryansk line...
...Berlin radio conceded retirement of German forces to new positions. Around Leningrad, Russia readied the offensive that would relieve the siege of her second city. South of Moscow Germans had been pushed back in some places more than 120 miles, and their newest stand, on a line from Bryansk to Vyazma, was breached. In the Crimea, having recaptured the naval base of Sevastopol, Russian troops threatened to reclaim the entire peninsula. A Soviet communiqué reported wholesale German surrenders on the Eastern Front...