Word: kiev
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...Phase of the war had begun auspiciously. West of Kiev, mobile Soviet columns spread out for 45 miles like the tentacles of a huge octopus, seizing vast booty, disorganizing German resistance. Moscow's Pravda quoted Nazi prisoners: "The swiftness of events defies description...
...South of Kiev...
...North of Kiev...
...thus ended what was probably the toughest part of the offensive begun at Stalingrad a year ago. It had beaten the Wehrmacht in its prime, vaulted over two great river barriers (Donets, Dnieper), captured the strongest of the enemy's strongholds (Rostov, Kharkov, Orel, Bryansk, Smolensk, Melitopol, Kiev...
...From Kiev, General Vatutin's army could now plunge directly west into Poland, only 130 miles away. Or it could swerve southwest, to try to set yet another trap for the German forces in the southern Ukraine. The weather in the south was still favorable, the troops fresh, supply lines from the east presumably restored in the past six weeks...