Word: dnieper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goals. With its armies, as the week turned, within eight mi. of Melitopol, within 20 mi. of the Dnieper, 25 mi. of Smolensk, 35 mi. of Kiev and 115 mi. of the old Polish border, Moscow remained closemouthed. Yet the war maps spelled clearly the Red Army's immediate objectives: Smolensk, Kiev, the Dnieper, the Crimea...
...good to know that in the blazing fires Hitler's hope of victory burned to dead ashes. The Donets Basin, Russia's Pennsylvania-om-Kansas, was free. The first train of Donets Basin coal reached Moscow. Red Army units were only 40-odd miles from the Dnieper, only 80-odd miles from Kiev...
These victories put the German defense system east of the Dnieper out of joint, menaced the Nazi forces in the south with entrapment, jeopardized the German hold on the Crimea. This week Berlin reported new threats: Soviet Union troops had landed at Novorossiisk; new drives had been launched off Vyazma and Leningrad. And Moscow itself jubilantly announced the Red Army was nearing Roslavl...
...these plays, the Red Army's twin goals were the Dnieper and the ancient city of Kiev, the Wehrmacht's most important base in the Ukraine. But in seeking them, the Red Command never lost sight of its old and tested strategy of myasoroobka-the meat-grinder, which by steady pounding and by enveloping maneuvers has been crushing the Wehrmacht's bone...
Thus far the Red Command has played its game shrewdly, used its reserves wisely, lacked neither men nor supplies. But before the Red soldier takes his first drink of Dnieper water, he must overcome...