Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News of rapid progress sent Moscow into an orgy of optimism. Cannon boomed without cease, to herald victories. The Russians poured into the streets, shouted in delight, embraced strangers. And, for the first time, Stalin uttered the magic words: "In the direction of Kiev...
...From Sevsk northward, to the rear of Bryansk, whose powerful defenses have held up Red frontal attacks for many days; or from Sevsk to Konotop, and thence to Kiev and the Dnieper...
...From the steadily widening Ukrainian wedge, to Kiev; or (more likely) towards the lower Dnieper (the latter drive would trap 300,000 Germans in the pocket between the Donets and the Sea of Azov...
...these plays, the Red Army's twin goals were the Dnieper and the ancient city of Kiev, the Wehrmacht's most important base in the Ukraine. But in seeking them, the Red Command never lost sight of its old and tested strategy of myasoroobka-the meat-grinder, which by steady pounding and by enveloping maneuvers has been crushing the Wehrmacht's bone...
Quite a few years ago in Kiev in the Russian Ukraine (now occupied by Germany) three young Russians just out of Alexander I Technical College studied a map of the United States to find a place to spend a summer vacation...