Word: dnieper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the 500-mile-long front, from the Dnieper's mouth to the Carpathians, four Red Armies hacked their way forward. Their prime objective: the web of railroads over which the enemy could be reinforced-or retreat. This week, all but one inferior escape line into Rumania had been cut. Birds of ill omen hovered over the fringes of the German-held steppe -air transports were dropping fuel and supplies to stalled trucks and tanks...
This week a fourth Army-presumably General Feodor Tolbukhin's-crossed the lower Dnieper, struck beyond Kherson. Said Moscow in jubilation: the defeat was becoming a catastrophe...
...Freed the Dnieper, save for a tiny German foothold at Kherson...
...Army has demolished the formidable Dnieper defense line, broken up Hitler's plan to stabilize the Eastern Front...
...bluish dusk the sound of gunfire rolled over Moscow and Leningrad, the Dnieper's ruined cities, Rostov on the distant Don. The salvos were Russia's salute to her army on its 26th anniversary. In the Kremlin, Marshal Joseph Stalin marked the date with a 2,000-word order, fat with the names of battles won, seasoned with pride and confidence, barbed with reference to Russia's "singlehanded" combat, Said Stalin...