Word: kiev
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Green Fields, Blue Sky. Terrain and season defined the campaign. The easiest area for attack was the central plain just above and below the vast Pripet Marshes. The two main German drives developed there - one headed for Minsk and Moscow, the other for Kiev and the Ukraine (see map) - over land flat as a billiard table, through fields still too green to be burned, under a sky clear enough for half-blind pilots. The weather would stay fine for three months, within which the Germans intended to attain their objectives...
Moscow: mosk'vah Smolensk: smaH'yensk Kiev: key'eff Kharkov: hark'koff Dnieper: dnyeh'pr Dniester: dnyeh...
...Assistant Commander of the Kiev Military Area under General lona Emmanuilovich Yakir, who was shortly to be executed. In 1937 Timoshenko became Commander of the North Caucasus Military Area, succeeding General N. D. Kashirin, who was shortly to be executed. Later in the year Timoshenko became Commander of the Kharkov Military Area, succeeding General L. Dubovoy, who already had been executed. In 1938 General Timoshenko returned to the Kiev Area as full commander. While in this post, in the autumn of 1939, he directed the Red Army's occupation of eastern Poland...
After the Russian revolution in 1917, the Ukraine split with the Bolsheviks and signed a separate treaty with Germany on Feb. 9, 1918. But the Soviet armies drove into the Ukraine, to its capital, Kiev (see map, p. 24). Thereupon the Germans not only drove out the Reds, but forced them to accept the Treaty of Brest Litovsk (March 3), which, besides depriving Russia of a Caucasian slice which went to Turkey, Russian Poland, Finland, Georgia, Lithuania, Kurland, Livonia, Estonia and the Islands of the Moon Sound, provided for an independent Republic of the Ukraine...
...three boosted to the rank of General of the Army after generals were reinstated last spring, was elevated to Chief of Staff of the Red Army. The interesting thing about this appointment was the fact that for nine months General Zhukov has been chief of the Kiev military district-next to the touchy Balkans. He recently stated that his men must be constantly ready, "so that no tricks of foreign enemies can catch us unprepared...