Word: dnieper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here the Wehrmacht rumbled into its futile attack on Moscow in the winter of 1941. To take it, the Russians had to pierce a 40-mi. belt of defenses they described as "the strongest on the Eastern front." The fall of Smolensk turned the left wing of the German Dnieper line, marked a victory as important as that at Stalingrad...
...Captured Poltava, the key to the big bend of the Dnieper...
...summer battle thus merged with the Battle for the Dnieper, now at its height...
...upon the eastern battleground. The mud clutched at cannon and tank, swathed marching men's feet with a heavy, sticky cast, and blackend the battles' dead. But, from Velikie Luki down, nine army groups, including perhaps 27 armies, early this week pushed and plunged at the German Dnieper line - at Kiev and Melitopol, Zaporozhe and Dnepropetrovsk, Gomel and Cherkasi...
Closer to the Dnieper than Rokossovsky were his teammates, Army Generals Nikolai Vatutin, whose sector hung over Poltava, and Rodion Malinovsky, now almost within gun range of Zaporozhe...