Word: dnieper
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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...
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...
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...
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...