Word: kerch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city of Kerch, Russia, all the schoolchildren were ordered out for a walk one day. Afterwards, when they were hungry and cold, hot coffee and cake were distributed to them. Both coffee and cake had been poisoned. The children died...
...east, where the Crimea stretches its small head towards the Caucasus like an eager turtle, other troops held on to beachheads seized in the winter. In December a trapped Red unit broke through the enemy lines at night, seized Kerch piers, escaped aboard waiting Red warships...
...January fresh units fought their way into Kerch, but were halted by German tanks. To head this front, Moscow brought from the north bullnecked, shrewd-eyed General Andrei Yeremenko, a 51 -year-old Cossack who headed Stalin grad's defense...
Execution. Early last week the time came. A tremendous artillery barrage erased German defenses at Kerch and Perekop, cleared paths for the two armies from north and east. The defending troops (including many Rumanians) fell back swiftly, then broke. Soviet columns raced across the dusty mid-Crimean steppe at 50 miles a day - and better. Russian cavalry slashed at the flanks of retreating elements, cut into main bodies. Red tentacles curled and spread all over the Vermont-sized peninsula...
...Russian landing contingents," Berlin said, had launched a direct attack on the Crimea's Kerch...