Word: kharkov
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North of the Crimea, some 300 miles, the Russian lashed furiously at his German foe, headed through German dead toward Kharkov, the Pittsburgh of the Ukraine...
...long winter leave was done. Now, as the mobilization trains crawled toward Orel, Kursk, Kharkov and Dniepropetrovsk, leave was becoming just a memory, the sharper because of what lay ahead...
...Russians still talked hopefully of knocking off the pocket of Staraya Russa, of taking Kharkov, richest military prize of all. They still might. But progress was agonizingly slow. And losses on both sides were heavy. In any well-regulated old-fashioned war the front would long since have dropped into hibernation, while both sides girded themselves for the spring...
...south, they kept Kharkov and Dniepropetrovsk, keys to the Ukraine, although the Russians made such onslaughts toward the Dnieper bend that German propaganda spoke, undoubtedly with wild distortion, of 1,500,000 attackers...
They also fought effectively. Hints of the headlong desperation of their smashing drives into Nazi lines even crept into German communiques. Berlin admitted that the Russians were on the edge of the Soviets' Pittsburgh -Kharkov -by saying that the city had been under heavy artillery fire. Bald Marshal Semion Timoshenko was within 20 miles of Dniepropetrovsk and its wrecked power dam, bulling his way ahead at the tip of a sharp salient...