Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above all, these were the points from which the Germans would have to attempt the only campaign which could possibly prevent their final defeat-a series of actions designed to destroy the hitherto indestructible Red Army. Their chances of succeeding in such an effort were less than they had ever been-yet it was hard to see what else the Germans could hope to do. They had already proved that great breakthroughs, great gains of territory, the capture of cities were not enough. Russia now could probably survive even the loss of Moscow and its transport and manufacturing area...
Despite its Hollywood flourishes, Mission to Moscow has power. Even its most one-sided re-enactments of history, such as the Moscow "purge" trials (which uncompromisingly convict Trotsky of collaboration with Germany and Japan to destroy the U.S.S.R.), carry authority...
...desert to range and thousands of gallons of Iraq-Persia oil to expend, General Anderson had to conduct his maneuvers on the great farm that is England, and ration his thirsty tanks to save shipping. He had to remember that a single armored division's exercises would destroy crops equal to one week's food for England. Consequently the First had very little training as an Army before it went off to the wars...
...would destroy democracy," declared Will Hays's lieutenant...
Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe to a Detroit luncheon audience, "must first destroy the motion-picture industry...