Word: dnieper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cherkassy lay on the middle Dnieper's right bank, and the approaches to it were swept by German gunfire. To the northwest spread dense, dark forests, infested by guerrillas...
...Berlin reported a major break-through near Krivoi Rog by a Russian army of 500,000. Such a thrust would end the last German resistance within the Dnieper bend...
Vistas. Though the Germans had not yet admitted it, Hitler's vaunted Dnieper line ("Here I am and here I shall remain") was no more. From a point just below doomed Gomel, 550 miles down to the Black Sea, the Dnieper's left bank was virtually clear...
...Army had thus ended what was probably the toughest part of the offensive begun at Stalingrad a year ago. It had beaten the Wehrmacht in its prime, vaulted over two great river barriers (Donets, Dnieper), captured the strongest of the enemy's strongholds (Rostov, Kharkov, Orel, Bryansk, Smolensk, Melitopol, Kiev...
...Wehrmacht was still strong, but it was now a cornered, wounded panther, no longer able to mount an offensive on the eastern front. It could still seek refuge behind the Bug or the Dniester, but neither was an obstacle as tough as the Dnieper, and both were frighteningly close to the borders of German Europe...