Word: kalinin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote the U.S.S.R.'s President Mikhail Kalinin in The Agitators' Guidebook, organ of Moscow's Communist Party: "We are often told that among our soldiers, especially those of older age, there are believers who wear crosses and recite prayers whom the younger people ridicule...
...Germans, trying to enlarge their Caucasian bridgehead in the Kuban, threw eight to ten divisions into a fruitless offensive. In the Kalinin sector, northwest of Moscow, General Maxim Purkaev, Soviet Military Attache in Berlin when war began, led a limited Soviet drive through the scrubby birch forests. But the most important action was taking place behind the fronts...
...young artillery captain, on leave from the Kalinin front, said: "This is not the time for talking. This is the time for fighting...
...doing throughout Russia: fighting a desperate battle of food. The 1942 harvest was in full swing. In southern Russia wheat-threshing machines hummed within earshot of tank battles. Near Stalingrad harvesters toiled around the clock to bring in ripened grain before the Nazi blight grew closer. Flax fields near Kalinin, rye fields around Kuibyshev, the great grain fields waving across the U.S.S.R.'s broad fertile land between northern forest and southern desert into the heart of Asia, all were black with hurrying harvesters. Thousands of new nurseries were opened to free mothers for tractor-driving. On the largest collective...
Rivenshstein visited our cabin to practice his English and play phonograph records. He is 32, handsome and blue-eyed. He has been flying since he was 17 and has a handshake like Joe Louis'. Stalin has received him three times. His group, fighting almost continuously on the Moscow, Kalinin, Orel and Voronezh fronts, has shot down about 200 German planes, and in six attacks recently destroyed 167 planes on the ground. The group has lost 20 Russian planes and 13 pilots. "Twenty for one is a good enough average," Boris says with smiling eyes and a slap...