Word: dnieper
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...Vatutin's army, rolling south, was within 100 miles of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, thereby threatening to block the Wehrmacht's retreat from Rostov. There is a chance that before spring the Wehrmacht may lose all of the rich Donets basin west to the Dnieper River-the last natural defense line inside Russia...
...south, they kept Kharkov and Dniepropetrovsk, keys to the Ukraine, although the Russians made such onslaughts toward the Dnieper bend that German propaganda spoke, undoubtedly with wild distortion, of 1,500,000 attackers...
...Lozovaya Timoshenko's troops were only 62 miles from Dnepropetrovsk and the site of the once great, now ruined Dnieper Dam. The Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic last week announced that before the dam was dynamited to render it useless to the Germans (TIME, Sept. 1), its 740,000-h.p. turbines and other power machinery had been dismantled and moved eastward to safety...
...Crete, it has broken down. A national tradition has for generations discouraged intelligence and science, to concentrate on sports and what it calls Character. Here is the result. History may decide that the kind of character that led the Russians to scorch their earth and blow up their Dnieper Dam has the higher survival value...
...doubly vital Caucasus-vital for its oil, vital as Russia's best eventual supply line from the Allies. At Kerch, on the peninsula's extreme eastern end. only the Kerch Straits separate Crimea from Caucasus, and the Kerch Straits are only a little wider than the lower Dnieper, which the Germans bridged...