Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the resurrection of Poland. Out of the wreck of the central powers and the Russian Empire, new states were created, Poland and the Baltic States among them. Almost at once the Poles found themselves in a new war with the Russians. Marshal Pilsudski led the Polish Army to Kiev to support Hetman Petlura's attempt to carve out an independent Ukraine. The infant Red Army drove out Petlura, chased Pilsudski to the gates of Warsaw. There, General Maxime Weygand of France, in collaboration with the Polish general staff, devised a brilliant strategy, sent the Russians stumbling back...
Terror swept the Bessarabian plains, driving the peasant folk and bourgeoisie like leaves in a rising storm. The Red Army was less than 70 miles away and advancing westward from the Kiev bulge. Behind the crumbling German front, Rumania trembled...
Toward Rumania. In the massive Battle of the Dnieper Bend, churning between Kiev and the Crimea since October, the Red Army won two key towns, gave Marshal Joseph Stalin cause to issue special orders of the day, Moscow cause to jubilate with fireworks and cannon...
...were less than 65 miles from the pre-1939 Rumanian frontier. At Kirovograd and other points on the salient's rim the Red Army hacked off and trapped hunks of the enemy. The Wehrmacht had spent precious, dwindling reserves in the November-December counterdrive west of Kiev. Now the hard question facing Manstein was not whether he could hold the salient, but whether he could get out of it in time. The Russians spoke of many prisoners taken, of "disorganized" Wehrmacht columns "powerless to stem our troops." But they also admitted the fierceness of German resistance. Marshal von Manstein...
Born in Jail. Professor Alexander Alexandrovitch Bogomoletz, who has worked on the serum for more than 18 years, is a physiologist and pathologist of very high international standing. He is director of Kiev's Institute for Experimental Biology and Pathology which, until the Nazis got there, was one of the best equipped laboratories in the world. Since 1930 he has been president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. When the Germans came, he moved from Kiev (he was born in jail there in 1881, while his mother was a political prisoner) to Ufa in the Urals. This month...