Word: krivoi
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...some of the stores one had to wait days for electric-light bulbs. During the lunch hour speakers from the intellectuals explained, but did not end, these waits. "One must remember," they said with their statistics, "that we lost 60% of our iron production when the Fascists took Krivoi Rog. We lost 45% of our manganese at Nikopol. At Leningrad 49% of our tire industry...
...linear proportion to the great flanking sweeps which made the gains possible. A great break-through near Uman, 120 miles south of Kiev, paved the way for the final dash south to the Black Sea. By week's end the Germans claimed to have rolled across the Krivoi Rog iron-ore area, which had supplied 59% of Russia's raw iron, and to have reached the sea east of Odessa and the port of Nikolaev...