Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early this week that outcome may have been foreshadowed by the German High Command-vastly more reliable than the official Nazi D.N.B. news agency-which claimed that the chief Russian forces in the center around Smolensk had been "destroyed." Russia admitted that a powerful German pincer thrust toward Kiev had reached Belaya Tserkov, 60 miles southwest of the city...
...respect he was certainly right: for a whole week the German Krieg had been without Blitz, a lightning war with the lightning extracted. Nearly three weeks had passed since the Germans announced they had broken the Stalin Line "at all vital points." and vaunted that Kiev was "on the point of falling." It had been two weeks since they announced that the Russians were throwing "their last reserves" into battle. It had been one week since they had spoken complacently of "the battle of annihilation" before Moscow...
Farther south the Germans, who were on the threshold of Kiev as the week began and had not gone in as it ended, complained of bad weather, of fortifications "as strong as the Maginot Line," of forts three stories deep. But as British Military Expert Strategicus wrote last week: "It is not positions which defend the troops but the troops who defend the positions." On the Ukraine front the Germans finally forced their way across the Dniester River, the boundary line until the Russians took Bessarabia in June...
...informed friends can probably do so by putting the following question: Within the lifetime of Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), what was the largest independent European State? Answer: Lithuania, which stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and in depth extended from the Polish border to the east of Kiev. In 1386 Lithuania's Grand Duke Jogaila married Poland's Queen Jadviga and became the Polish King...
...situation was that Comrade Stalin placed his three top marshals to defend the three important sectors defending his three big threatened cities. He entrusted Leningrad to Klimenti E. Voroshilov, former Commander in Chief and Defense Commissar; Moscow to Semion K. Timoshenko, who now holds those jobs (TIME, June 30); Kiev to Semion M. Budenny, who was always Voroshilov's right-hand...