Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied bombs to make Romans shudder. Persistent report had the Nazis systematically looting the capital's art treasures. Northbound trains were said to be bearing plunder to the castles and villas where Göring, Himmler and lesser German collectors had stored the loot of Warsaw, Paris and Kiev...
First Front. Russia was still the first front, massive and man-consuming. The Wehrmacht found no rest at the Dnieper, only more blood, battle and bafflement. The Red Army crunched through Zaporozhe, grappled fiercely for Gomel, Kiev and Melitopol, crashed through the German lines between the key cities, battered at the flank of the enemy's Dnieper loop, threatened with disaster his powerful forces in the Crimea...
...German command was throwing fresh divisions into the battle: Hitler had ordered the Dnieper held at all costs. But the verdammte Bolschewis-ten-the damned Bolsheviks-had attacked earlier than expected, pierced the yet unready German defenses. Moscow reports spoke of Nazi troopers streaming out of sacked, blazing Kiev...
...which followed the loss of Smolensk, it has yielded only Kremenchug. At some points the front is still as much as 40 miles east of Hitler's defense wall. Yet the Russian pressure is immense. Early this week, most of the bastions of this line-Vitebsk, Mogilev, Gomel, Kiev, Melitopol-were in danger...
Already some Red units had crossed the river. Already Cossacks watered their horses on the lower Dnieper. Farther north, weary but exultant Red soldiers watched the gold-domed churches of Kiev, its roofs peeking through the branches of chestnut trees...