Word: kharkov
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...last week's action on the Russian front did not betray it. Hitler's armies had all the appearances of an army breaking its neck for the sake of quick victory. It stormed the Crimean Peninsula, hurled itself against Moscow's defenses, cleaned up industrial Kharkov, paused seemingly to gather its coils for a deadly new strike at Rostov-on-Don. These might be the final autumn battles...
...radio said fresh German divisions were thrown into the battle for the great industrial center of Kharkov and that the Russians had been forced back slightly...
...lost to the Russians, and the invader pressed on for the vital Donets basin, where most of Russia's coal and much of its remaining industry lie. This push seemed to be developing in the familiar pattern: two prongs reaching out to encircle and squeeze. One hit for Kharkov, the Ukraine's second city. The other struck southeast along the coast to the Sea of Azov...
...excellent position to get in Kiev's rear, and complete its encirclement (see map). Even more dangerous to Russian hopes was his capture of Kremenchug, 160 miles to Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten the Donets coal basin. Unconfirmed were reports that the Germans had also reached Perekop at the top of the Crimean Peninsula...
Moscow: mosk'vah Smolensk: smaH'yensk Kiev: key'eff Kharkov: hark'koff Dnieper: dnyeh'pr Dniester: dnyeh...