Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Lewis, greatest labor tactician in U.S. history, captured his own Kiev last week...
Russia. Marshal Joseph Stalin said: "Victory is near." The Red Army captured Kiev, the Ukraine's capital, ended the summer-&-fall fight for the Dnieper and began the winter battle for western Russia. In the Nevel sector to the north, the Red Army was within 40-odd miles of Poland; in the south, 130 miles from Poland...
...Farther north, powerful Russian columns inched closer to the German strongholds at Kiev, Gomel, Vitebsk. German defenses forbade a quick breakthrough. But the steady punching kept the worried German command from shifting its troops from these threatened cities to the crumbling line in the south...
When the Red Army launched its offensives against Kiev and Melitopol in September, the Wehrmacht rushed precious reserves of men and tanks to these points over strained and inadequate railroads and highways. The Russians saw their opportunity, struck between the two cities at the soft top of the Dnieper bulge (see map), won a small bridgehead below Kremenchug...
Moscow was gay and confident. Twice within the week gun salvos announced new successes. The Dnieper had been crossed. Kiev's recapture was near. The winter's chill breath was already upon the city, but nichevo-no matter. Victory was in the air and it smelled good after two cruel and distressing years...