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...Russians were already less than 50 miles from Budapest. A tank battle was already raging on the Hungarian plain. The country was ideal for motorized attack. By this week Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky had widened his front to 120 miles, captured Szeged, Hungary's second largest city, the Transylvanian capital of Cluj, and drawn near to Debrecen, where Patriot Louis Kossuth once declared Hungary's independence. But Malinovsky had a long, tenuous supply line, might be delayed until it was strengthened...
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army, driving north from Rumania, had already driven out onto the Hungarian plain. Last week, crumpling paper-thin Hungarian opposition, it reached the only water barrier before Budapest and the Danube - the Tisza River. With hardly a pause, the Russians crossed it 50 miles from Budapest, had a clear road ahead to the capital, where Nazis were already beginning to clear...
Already Russian troops in Slovakia were descending from the north on Hungary. Another Russian army crossed the prewar frontier to enter the Hungarian plain from the southeast. The Nazis needed their savings from Greece to try to save Hungary...
Dribbles of truth in a gushing torrent of rumor gave a veiled outline of the Germans' departure from the Balkans. On a front which a month ago had been held by 100 divisions, the Nazis now had left 15 Hungarian and 35 German divisions, but 25 Rumanian, 25 Bulgarian had departed, some of them to fight on the other side. Now the Germans were desperately rushing new defenders, scraped up somehow, to hold at the Danube...
...were the Russians, who had rolled past Sofia across Bulgaria to within 200 miles of the Adriatic. If an Allied landing now followed in the Balkans, the Germans left in Greece and the Aegean would be cut off, like the Germans in southwest France. Then Yugoslavia and the Hungarian plains would offer Allied armies an open invitation to Budapest and Vienna...