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This southern arm cut off the Crimea, with its naval base at Sevastopol, from communication with the mainland. The Russians, far from giving the peninsula up-perhaps remembering that in the Crimean War 86 years ago Sevastopol resisted British and French siege for over eleven long months-rushed reinforcements by sea, prepared to make a bitter stand, as at Odessa and Leningrad...
Laced as it is with mountains, this area is larger than it looks. Vienna at the western edge of the map is no farther from the Atlantic Ocean than it is from the Crimea in the eastern half of the map. The Hungarian Plain-the fringes of which are shared by Germany, Yugoslavia and Rumania is roughly as large as the northern half of France. After the Danube escapes from this plain through the Iron Gate it emerges into another plain, the northern part of which belongs to Rumania, the southern part to Bulgaria. But the biggest and most fertile...
...unit in the Caucasus, Comrade Timoshenko escaped to Tsaritsyn, then defended by Red Army forces under Stalin and Voroshilov, with whom he became fast friends. They gave him command of a cavalry brigade and in 1920, while attacking Baron Wrangel's forces at Perekop in the Crimea, Timoshenko was severely wounded and his brigade was cut to pieces by the Whites...
...Boss Tweed. The Communist Party was growing by leaps & bounds. Comrade Stalin appointed the new secretaries of the expanding organization. Comrade Stalin could not directly punish a recalcitrant secretary, but one who showed too much independence could easily be shifted, without explanation, from a nice post in, say, the Crimea, to a cold outpost in Archangel. By the time of Lenin's death in 1924 Stalinist bureaucracy was already in the saddle...
...army is not only melting away but our national position is doing the same, that ill bird The Times wh. daily fouls its own nest contributes powerfully to the decline of England. . . . Things are bad enough Heaven knows in the Crimea but the glowing colors in wh. every detail is painted have excited the people of this country almost to madness & have led among other things to a ministerial crisis...