Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Counterblows. Like three great scythes, Red Armies were trying to slash their way through and behind the German positions in south Russia last week. Said Moscow's Red Star: "By strengthening our blows we will be in a position to surround new masses and inflict new losses. The harvest will be great if we can reap it in time...
...Random Harvest...
...Ukraine. One result was that Ukrainian farmlands produced very little for the Germans. They were able to bring in about 5,000 tractors, a few thousand plows. By forcing prisoners and peasants to work the fields 17 hours a day, the Germans were able to plant and harvest about 300,000 tons of grain in 1942 (in 1937, the Ukraine produced 10,000,000 tons of wheat alone...
...destroy Napoleon instead of merely pursuing him. "Kutuzov told him plainly," says Eugene Tarle (Napoleon's Invasion of Russia), "that his aim was to eject Napoleon from Russia and that he did not see why Russia should waste her forces on the complete destruction of Napoleon, since the harvest of such a victory would be reaped by England, not Russia...
...Random Harvest (Greer Garson, Ronald Colman, Susan Peters; TIME...