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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...
...snowstorm had been raging for several days. On the day when Colonel General Golikov's campaign opened there was such a whirling blizzard that a Russian correspondent's car took three hours to negotiate a quarter-mile. The Germans, sure that human beings would not fight on such a day, crawled into their dugouts and turned their backs...
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...
Other forces under Golikov, operating in the rear, surrounded a "death pocket" of 25,000 Germans-all that remained of an army which in mid-January numbered some...
Cavalryman of the Southwest, where one army is moving side-by-side with Golikov's troops toward Kharkov and another is pushing down the railway below Millerovo toward Rostov, is Colonel General Nikolai Vatutin, 42. Another veteran of the Czarist Army and the Revolution, Vatutin was an Army commander in the Ukraine when the Germans invaded it. He skillfully retreated from the Dnei-per Bend, then helped Marshal Timoshenko launch successful counterattacks...