Word: carpathians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down the Carpathian flank of the funnel poured General Rodion Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army. A massive artillery barrage cracked the concrete firing points built by the Germans around Jassy, Rumania's second city (pop. 100,000) and ancient capital, famed for monasteries and native daughter Magda Lupescu...
...hours Russians and Germans fought a savage street battle. Then the city fell. The Second Ukrainian Army lunged southward through ripening wheat and corn, sent spearheads westward into the beech-clad Carpathian foothills, penetrated Hungarian-held Transylvania. At week's end it hammered past Focsani, western anchor of the Gap's defenses and a main junction on the railway to Ploesti...
...Turned the German Carpathian line. ¶Snatched from hungry German fingers the rich Bessarabian grain harvest, threatened to snatch the whole Rumanian breadbasket as well as the oil wells that supply one-third of the Wehrmacht's fuel. ¶Deprived the Welirmacht of some 300,000 Rumanian soldiers. Most of the fight had gone out of these troops (except in Transylvania, where they took up an old feud against the Hungarians...
...thwart this plan, the Wehrmacht dipped into its reserves, last week mounted a counterattack. German infantry, tanks, bombers struck at Narva, on the Baltic Sea; at Lwów, in old Poland; in the Carpathian foothills. But the Red Army, trained well in digging in, held its gains...
Astute Dr. Benes recently trimmed his sails to the Slovak wind, watered down his previous insistence upon a centralized Czechoslovak government. Said he: "I, myself, believe that the decentralization of Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Carpathian Ruthenia-to the degree that is especially necessary in Slovakia-is a matter of course...