Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kettle. In the deepest encirclement it ever attempted, the German Army had taken in not only Kiev but some 11,000 square miles to the east. Inside that kettle it claimed it had isolated no less than 50 divisions (more than the U.S. Army, two-thirds of the British Army, one-fifth of the German Army...
Wedge. The crucial question in the Ukraine was whether the force kettled near Kiev was most of the southern defensive force or whether there were still enough Russians to put up more fight. The question was answered by the Germans...
...with enough power to counterattack must be moderately strong. After the Germans claimed 633,000 prisoners in the Minsk and Smolensk areas Marshal Semion Timoshenko was still able to counterattack and stabilize that front (see p. 27). But upon what happens when the Germans have emptied the kettle of Kiev and are ready again to pound the wedge depends the future of British-Russian cooperation on a common front (see p. 25) against that artist of Keil und Kessel, Adolf Hitler...
...outside the villages one had seen the parachutes pouring down like crazy cotton snowflakes; one had accumulated tremendous faith in this power. But this power had been pushed back, now, deep into Russia, had been cut at Smolensk, cupped at Leningrad, driven even beyond the ancient Golden Gate of Kiev...
...Kiev, cradle of Russia and capital of the Ukraine, a city decorated with bluffs, monuments and ancient legends, fell after withstanding encirclement and assault for four weeks. This city of 850,000 souls was the first of the major German objectives to go. But even more serious than the fall of the city itself was the destruction near it of vast amounts of materiel and the encirclement behind it of a large Russian force-250,000, the Germans said...