Word: dnieper
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...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...
...From Sevsk northward, to the rear of Bryansk, whose powerful defenses have held up Red frontal attacks for many days; or from Sevsk to Konotop, and thence to Kiev and the Dnieper...
...From the steadily widening Ukrainian wedge, to Kiev; or (more likely) towards the lower Dnieper (the latter drive would trap 300,000 Germans in the pocket between the Donets and the Sea of Azov...
...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...