Word: dnieper
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...Accursed," as the Great Khan was known, did lots of nasty things to lots of people. When he was still a boy, he murdered one of his halfbrothers, and before his death at 65, his armies had slaughtered millions from the Dnieper to the China Sea. Wayne's performance should go a long way toward paying the old warrior back. He portrays the great conqueror as a sort of cross between a square-shootin' sheriff and a Mongolian idiot. The idea is good for a couple of snickers, but after that it never Waynes but it bores...
...front, he commanded the Second Ukrainian Army, which breached the German defenses and liberated Belgorod and Kharkov. In 1944 he won his greatest victory at Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, where in mud and blizzard his Soviet force encircled and destroyed ten German divisions. From there he went on to force the Dnieper, the Bug and the Dniester, and after liberating North Moldavia, his troops crossed Poland and became the first Russians to reach the Elbe, where his 58th Guards Division linked up with the U.S. 69th Division. Here Konev met General Bradley, presented him with a Cossack charger (the name Konev...
...Date of the Crime. The Katyn (rhymes with sateen) massacre was first reported by the Nazis in April 1943. On a spruce-covered hill overlooking the Dnieper, near Smolensk, Russia, they had found, stacked in mass graves, the bodies of some 4,000 Polish officers. Each was bound with hands behind his back; each had been shot through the base of the skull. The Nazis charged that the Russians had done it. The Polish officers, they said, were those captured by the Russians when they invaded Poland in September 1939. The Russians had shipped them from various prison camps...
...Marxist" is the word that divides the world. In the lands drained by the Sava, the Bug, the Moskva, the Dnieper, the Don, the Volga, the Yenisei and the Amur, a man who wishes to express approval-of a painting, a factory production record or a military operation-is likely to call it "Marxist." In the lands drained by the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the Orinoco, the Amazon, the Tagus, the Thames and the Clyde, a man who wishes to express disapproval-of a painting, a production record or a military operation-is likely to call it "Marxist...
...European Mennonites, in settlements now decades old, have made the swampy wilderness bear fat crops of cotton and kaffir corn. There the immigrants will have a chance to prove by the banks of the Paraguay what their co-religionists have proved by the banks of the Susquehanna, the Dnieper and Canada's Red River-that Menno Simons' followers are among the world's best farmers...