Word: crimea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine months and (Moscow said) more than 300,000 casualties were the price Germany paid for the history-encrusted Crimea and its naval bases. This week, with their supply lines severed by the Red drive across the Ukraine, the Germans had lost all but a tiny, blazing corner of the peninsula. With it went their claim to full control of the Black...
...Germans had no sea bases on the Ukrainian coast. They still held the Crimea, but Soviet men-of-war and aircraft hacked its supply arteries to Rumania. Last week a new Russian offensive drove 12 miles into the Crimean defenses behind which 100,000 Axis troops may be trapped...
German civilians bombed out of the Reich were "advised" to leave Rumania within ten days. In Bessarabia, boys of 16-18 were called for military service. Ships were being massed in Rumania's ports to evacuate the battered, impatient Axis troops in Nikolayev, Odessa, the Crimea...
...Then the "Red Rose of the Recolution" fell in love with a huge, illiterate, black-bearded sailor named Dybenko, who had led the revolt of the Baltic Fleet. In the midst of revolutionary history, the two made a counterrevolution of their own, went off to the lush and lazy Crimea for a prolonged weekend. Alexandra Mihailovna was almost...
...Russian landing contingents," Berlin said, had launched a direct attack on the Crimea's Kerch...