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Initiative was still Russian property last week. The Russians attacked all along the line, from Kerch in Crimea to Karelia, bordering Finland. But they did not capture any of the main German strong points; they, like the Germans, were hub-caught in mud; and every single day of the week the Russian communique had the phrase "no significant change...
...there was to be only the quick shock of spring. For the lieutenants, for the corporals, there was not even certainty as to what bitter job would have to be done. They could only guess: southern Russia, probably, between Orel and the Crimea, logically, a drive for oil and toward India. Most of the reinforcements were pouring into that sector. Only the Führer and his intimates could say when the drive would begin. The Russians were putting on one last effort to take the German key points; they were attacking all along the line, but especially...
...sunny Crimea, on the southern end of the great Russian battlefront, soldiers of two nations saw the first signs of spring last week. To the Germans, the first buds and the first faint greening of the grass made a welcome sight. Their High Command announced the coming of spring. But to the Russians spring was bad news. Against the threat of burgeoning trees, they fought savagely from Kerch on Crimea's eastern tip to the snowbound Leningrad pocket...
...special "order of the day" to the Red Army and the world. His words were confident, but his was the promise of vic tory, not the report of victories gained: "We shall throw the enemy from the gates of Leningrad and liberate White Russia, the Ukraine and the Crimea. The Red Banner will fly everywhere it has flown before." He conceded gravely that victory is still expensively distant: "He [the enemy] is not yet beaten and a stern struggle is ahead of us. New units must be sent to the front to forge victory. Industry must work with redoubled energy...
...Been cleared out of the Crimea...