Word: gzhatsk
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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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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