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Pobeda III. At the open end of the Dnieper U, the Russians marked the Stalingrad anniversary with another encirclement of German forces. By sharp, converging 50-mile thrusts, the armies of Generals Vatutin and Ivan Konev had worked in behind one armored and nine infantry divisions-perhaps 100,000 men. Moscow reported that they were being rapidly liquidated...
Pobeda IV. Farther south, General Rodion Malinovsky, a 45-year-old ex-corporal who fought in France in World War I, struck at the closed end of the Dnieper U. In a four-day battle, his Third Ukrainian Army drove through 30-odd miles of enemy defenses. Moscow announced that he had all but cut off five infantry divisions there. But more important still was his threat to the great Nazi strongholds of Krivoi Rog and Nikopol. When they fall (this week the Russians were fighting in Nikopol's suburbs), most of the Dnieper loop will be cleared...
...Forest. A little fleet of cars took the party ten miles out the Vitebsk road to Goat Hill, overlooking the Dnieper. A light snow was falling on the slender, leaning birches, the bare oaks, the tall evergreens and the huge mounds of frozen sand with the black boots sticking out. Kathy and her companions stumbled over the rough ground, past pits the size of tennis courts, to where Dr. Victor Prozorovsky, senior medical expert of the Atrocities Commission, stood on a freshly turned heap of red sand. He was directing Red Army men as they hacked out frozen, mildewed Polish...
...Poland's Strong Man Josef Pilsudski sent a motley army into agonized Russia. By spring of 1920, the Poles watered their horses in the Dnieper. That May the Reds struck back...
...Marcks. The Marcks plan was to prepare a tremendous mass concentration in the Balkans, which the Russians might logically interpret as a move against Turkey. Then, without warning, the concentration could have been hurled against the Ukraine, with an ultimate wheeling turn toward Moscow up the valleys of the Dnieper and the Don. The Marcks plan would have resulted in a gigantic concentration of German strength at one point. But Hitler insisted on three large attack wedges, none of which was strong enough to win a decisive victory...