Word: dniepropetrovsk
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...long winter leave was done. Now, as the mobilization trains crawled toward Orel, Kursk, Kharkov and Dniepropetrovsk, leave was becoming just a memory, the sharper because of what lay ahead...
...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...
...headlong desperation of their smashing drives into Nazi lines even crept into German communiques. Berlin admitted that the Russians were on the edge of the Soviets' Pittsburgh -Kharkov -by saying that the city had been under heavy artillery fire. Bald Marshal Semion Timoshenko was within 20 miles of Dniepropetrovsk and its wrecked power dam, bulling his way ahead at the tip of a sharp salient...