Word: khersones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia. Between the Pripet Marshes and Leningrad, the Red Army smashed into the enemy in a new offensive, moved 19 miles on a 50-mile front in five days. At Kherson, 640 miles to the south, it drove the enemy from his bridgehead on the Dnieper's south bank. Question for Germans: Where would the big blow fall...
...After a 130-mile dash in twelve days, Russian guns were shelling the city of Kherson from emplacements across the Dnieper...
...fast columns closed in on the Dnieper's underbelly, one threatening to trap large German forces in the Dnieper bend, the other advancing toward the city of Kherson, formerly a big submarine-building base...
...Jersey tomatoes, Oregon onions, Michigan beets. Planted on 500,000 acres of Russian soil, the seed was the gift of U.S. farmers and seedgrowers through the Russian War Relief, Inc. For some of this seed this will be a native's return, for the Red Turkey wheat and Kherson oats were first brought to the Middle West by immigrants from the Ukraine...
...never left him. He lost consciousness soon after he was put to bed. If a man's past life passes before him at such times, some strange scenes appeared to Trotsky in his coma: the first trip of nine-year-old Lev Davidovich Bronstein from the farm in Kherson Province to school in Odessa; his first brush with Marxism in the seventh grade in Nikolayev; his conversion to the cause after the woman Vetrova burned herself to death in a prison cell; his first arrest in 1898; prison in Moscow, where he married Alexandra Lvovna; Siberia in 1900; escape...