Word: krivoi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ukraine, Krivoi Rog, which held the Russians back for five months, fell last week...
...this time Hero Rotmistrov was elsewhere. Best guess: he was at the head of the tatnk forces which this week broke into the German stronghold of Krivoi...
...reason, boldly scribbled across the map of war: fear of being caught by the fast, steady Russian advance from the north. To the jubilant Russians this was a victory as great as the destruction of the Eighth German Army in the Ukraine (see below), as the break-through at Krivoi Rog. This week they looked forward to a still greater triumph: capture of Pskov, railroad gateway into the Baltic States. Of the three Red armies driving on the thousand-year-old stronghold, the closest stood only 28 miles away...
...Krivoi Rog, where the Red Army was closing in on the last great Nazi hedgehog in the Dnieper loop...
...closed end of the Dnieper U. In a four-day battle, his Third Ukrainian Army drove through 30-odd miles of enemy defenses. Moscow announced that he had all but cut off five infantry divisions there. But more important still was his threat to the great Nazi strongholds of Krivoi Rog and Nikopol. When they fall (this week the Russians were fighting in Nikopol's suburbs), most of the Dnieper loop will be cleared out. Germany will face the prospect that both ends of its once well-knit line will come unraveled...