Word: bucovina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Black Sea, had probably done as well as could be expected, since his way lay across the broad estuaries of the big rivers. Marshal Zhukov, at the northern end of the Ukrainian front, had done very well by breaking through with heavy concentrations of guns and tanks into Bucovina. But Konev, in the center, had pushed farthest. He had already crossed the Bug and the Dniester. This week his army held a 50-mile front along the sandy Prut river, nowhere wider than 300 yards...
...Russian territories "returned to the last square inch" (including the Baltic States, that part of Poland occupied by the Red Army in 1939, Bessarabia and Bucovina, portions of Finland...
They have taken away most of the commodities in the usual Nazi manner. There has been strong opposition to the continuation of the war after the recapturing of Bossarabia and Bucovina. All reports coming from Roumania, either in the press or from the people who have told me personally what they have seen, agree that many generals have been shot because they did not want to keep up a fight for non-Roumanian territory...
First step in the partitioning came in June, when Russia moved into Bessarabia and northern Bucovina. Three weeks ago Adolf Hitler summoned a Balkan conference at Salzburg at which it was made clear that the Axis, tolerating no disturbance in the Balkans, would support the claims of Hungary and Bulgaria against Rumania. It seemed to be agreed that the smaller operation, amputation of southern Dobruja, would be accomplished first...
...Dobruja. Hungary, which covets Rumanian Transylvania, last week opened a screaming press attack on Rumania because of Carol's "shifty" policy toward the Axis, to which Hungary clings. Finally, Russia handed King Carol a note stressing the desirability of a "popular Government" in Rumania. Having grabbed Bessarabia and Bucovina, Russia wants only that vague thing which she calls security, in the name of which Joseph Stalin has seized 210,584 square miles in the last ten months...