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...been manufactured to fit the occasion. What was released to a curious world was a wordperfect picture of the "new Soviet man" -it might well have described a U.S. Eagle Scout from Iowa. Yuri was born on a collective farm near the small town of Gzhatsk, 100 miles west of Moscow. The young boy shone in the local school, and after completing the sixth grade, he was sent to manual training school in a Moscow suburb. He graduated as a molder, but never worked at this skilled trade; his record was good enough to get him into an "industrial technicum...
Southeast of Rzhev other Russian columns captured Gzhatsk, the German position nearest (125 miles) to Moscow, and converged on the railway-junction town of Vyazma. Its fall would enable all the Red armies on the Central Front to combine for a drive toward Smolensk. The whole German position in central Russia was crumbling away...
...most urgent reason for a northerly offensive-and a fact which had been all but forgotten in the glad heat of victory in the south-was that the Germans on the central front were still less than 125 miles from Moscow. At Gzhatsk, on the Moscow-Smolensk railway, the Germans reported one attack. The Russians had been intermittently assaulting the Germans' powerfully defended Smolensk-Rzhev-Vyazma triangle since last summer, they had stepped up the assaults at the start of the winter drives-yet the Germans still held a position which could be the starting point of another stab...
...powerful army drove southwestward directly on Vyazma from captured Gzhatsk, 36 miles to the northeast...
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