Word: kiev
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This week Kiev lay black and tortured again, awaiting transfusion. In its wrecked buildings, Red Army sappers patiently searched for hidden mines. In its streets, the civilian survivors toiled overtime, in a race with the approaching winter...
...recapture Kiev, the Russian Supreme Command had picked two of its ablest field commanders: Generals Konstantin Rokossovsky and Nikolai Vatutin. Their armies arrived before Kiev in September, weary after the summer's cruel fighting. For many weeks, they stood in an arc before the city, regained strength, indifferently pounded the enemy defenses...
Reassured, the Wehrmacht pulled some troops out of Kiev, rushed them south to help hold Krivoi Rog. Only then did peasant-faced, tank-wise Vatutin (by now, for unannounced reasons, in full command) give the order to attack. His veteran troopers stood on the heights before Kiev and wept with anger and sorrow at the sight of flames eating through the city. Then, with fury in their hearts, they swept down upon...
...murky dawn hour when Kiev fell, the battle for the Dnieper had virtually ended, the battle for western Russia had begun...
...vast turn in the Russian war were needed, Moscow provided it last week with an official map of the summer and fall gains. Last April, the Red Army published a map showing the gains of the previous winter. On the western fringe of that map lay Odessa, Kiev, Mogilev, Vitebsk-all still deep in the enemy's rear. On the western fringe of the map published in Moscow newspapers last week lay Bucharest, Warsaw, Konigsberg in East Prussia...