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Success In Snow. What a young Russian general (Filip Ivanovich Golikov) accomplished on a limited Russian sector (Kursk) as the week opened seemed at first to be another wonderful but local success. Actually the way Kursk was captured and the consequences of its fall shed much light on Russian potentialities...
...Filip Ivanovich Golikov, a typical front commander, seems to want that. He is young: 45. He fought in the revolution. He is a product of Frunze Military Academy. He is one of few Red generals who have firsthand knowledge of Russia's allies...
Kursk Captured. Farther north, Colonel General Filip I. Golikov's forces, completing a 125-mile thrust on skis and motorized sleds, captured Kursk, one of the main pivots of the German line in south Russia. This brilliant advance not only brought the Russians past the line from which the Germans began their 1941 offensive, but it cut Kharkov off from all its northern Nazi supply bases. The fall of Kursk also enables Colonel General Golikov's armies to swing south and close on Kharkov itself...
Leader at Voronezh, where the Red Army is driving on Kursk and Kharkov, is Colonel General Filip I, Golikov, 48. A tall, husky man with a broad face, he is one of Russia's principal tank experts. At war's start he was a key member of the General Staff, but when Moscow was threatened he took command of a field army. His offensive may well turn out to be the most important of all the winter drives...
...tank successes, Lieut. General Vassily Mikhailovich Badanov this week received the Order of Suvorov, a new decoration for commanders. Commander of the drive down the Rostov railway was one of the few Russian soldiers known in the U.S.: Lieut. General Filip Ivanovich Golikov, who headed a Soviet military mission in Washington...