Word: caspian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian people show signs of wanting a break with their allies. The Russians wanted a second front and said so. Their newspapers printed accounts of second-front rallies in the U.S. and Britain. But there was no carping criticism of their allies' war efforts. In the Caspian, the Volga valley and in Moscow the man-in-the-street hailed U.S. and British citizens with three fingers held up together, a symbol of the Soviet-U.S.-British triple alliance...
...bloodiest efforts. More important to Russia than the Mississippi is to the U.S.. the Volga on its broad back carries the steel, oil. ore. tanks, guns and food of a vast chain of industrial cities stretching from its headwaters, between Leningrad and Moscow, to the salty Caspian. Canals, first dreamed of by Peter the Great, connect it with the Baltic. The Caspian is a gateway to Baku, to Iran and the outside world. Already Nazi bombers were pounding Volga shipping...
...trial with the ferocious courage of a people fired by undaunted faith in their motherland. Their Red army, battered and bleeding on the south Russian plains, was locked in history's greatest battle. Beneath Nazi bludgeoning the Red army was reeling back, back toward Stalingrad, back toward the Caspian, back toward Asia...
...Caucasus, bounded by the Caspian and Black Seas, forms a rough umbilicus betweenAsia and Europe. Its broad steppes in the north and lush valleys in the south have offered a natural highway for migrating hordes. Its mountains, higher than any in Europe, run from northwest to southeast and form natural bastions for defenders. Successive waves of Persians, Khazars, Arabs, Huns, Turko-Mongols and Russians have died in defense of narrow Caucasian mountain passes, or in trying to storm them...
Traces of the old times still survive. At the old Persian-founded city of Derbent, on the Caspian, stands an ancient citadel, its walls and wooden, iron-framed gates forming a barrier between the mountains and the sea. The famed Georgian Military Highway, from the North Caucasus to Georgia, skirts the site of the historic ironbound Daryal gates, which in ancient days closed the Daryal Gorge. Many a solitary cliffside mountain village still has its ancient watchtowers, frowning down on all approaches...