Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's marshals and generals, none has been a more dramatic figure, few have been more popular with their men and the Russian public alike than barrel-chested, black-haired Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky. He combined many characteristics that Russians love: energy, muscular strength, stubborn calm, youthful daring, earthiness. He was up from the black soil, a worker's son, an orphan at nine, a shepherd in the Ukraine, a cadet at Kiev Military School, a total product of the Soviet state...
There, this week, General Ivan Chernyakhovsky died of a battle wound. The Russian "soldier's soldier," he was often at the front, taking risks no Allied Army commander is supposed to take. Moscow ordered a hero's funeral at Vilna, a grant and annuities to his widow and two children, a monument to honor a twice-named Hero of the Soviet Union...
...long, narrow spearhead that Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov had thrust toward Berlin broadened out. While Zhukov paused, Marshal Ivan S. Konev hammered into line on his left. The Red armies were linked along the east bank of the Oder, their flanks more secure...
...Germans, while massing most of their strength in front of Berlin, guessed rightly that Marshal Ivan Konev would try to complete his envelopment of Breslau and widen his bridgeheads in the Steinau area. But they guessed wrong about Konev's power. When the blow came it was in huge force-enough to carry through Steinau and on to Liegnitz, 35 miles west of Breslau...
...Second Bid. In 1920 Russia made its second bid for control of the west during its war with Poland. Stalin was political commissar of the Red Army which invaded roughly the same area of Poland invaded 25 years later by Marshal Ivan Konev-just as this time a Provisional Government of Poland, headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky, followed hard on the heels of the Red Army. Like Bierut, Dzerzhinsky was a Pole. Like Bierut, he was in the Russian secret police (later he organized the Ogpu). Russia's second bid for western power failed when French General Maxime Weygand...