Word: crimea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rail link between Murmansk on the Arctic coast and Leningrad was allayed. Control of the Volkhov River would mean possession of four-fifths of the Moscow-Leningrad railroad. Already recaptured was the southbound Moscow-Tula-Orel railroad. If the Germans could be driven out of the Donets Basin and Crimea, Russia could again link up communications important to her war effort-the zigzag lines of rails connecting Murmansk with Leningrad, Leningrad with Moscow, Moscow with the Donets Basin and the Black...
...Russia during the severe winter months, indulging only in minor tactical attacks. Last week's German attacks were of this nature. German forces tried to close leaks in the siege of Leningrad, tried to improve their position on the flanks of Moscow, tried to clean out the Crimea to neutralize Sevastopol, Russia's next-to-last naval base in the Black Sea (last: Novorossiisk in the Caucasus). At Leningrad and Moscow the Russians held fast; in the Crimea Sevastopol held out, but the Germans drove east to Kerch, which is only six miles from the Caucasus. But even...
...Russian side, men with fresh wounds were fighting in the Crimea. For the Russians were retreating, and in their retreat they were fighting one of the most important battles...
...Germans gained Crimea, they would be within six miles of the doubly vital Caucasus-vital for its oil, vital as Russia's best eventual supply line from the Allies. At Kerch, on the peninsula's extreme eastern end. only the Kerch Straits separate Crimea from Caucasus, and the Kerch Straits are only a little wider than the lower Dnieper, which the Germans bridged...
This was heartbreaking work. But the Russians knew that in the six weeks since Adolf Hitler had boasted that Russia was beaten, the Germans had taken only Kharkov and part of the Crimea...