Word: kuban
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home Was Never like This. When Red Army men first streamed westward across Russia's frontiers, they entered a new world full of fascinations and dangers. Siberian trappers, Uzbek farmers, Cossacks from Kuban were so many children discovering toys they had never known in their Communist nursery...
...there was many a sign that Malinovsky's fast-moving army might yet swerve south to help Colonel General Fedor Tolbukhin seal the narrow Crimean bottleneck. If these two able generals succeeded, the German forces in the Crimea and Kuban-perhaps as many as 300,000 men- would find themselves trapped within a huge nutcracker, one jaw pressing from the Ukraine, the other from the Caucasus. Russia's Black Sea Fleet, based on recaptured Novorossiisk, would add to the Wehrmacht's woes...
...Caucasus and at Stalingrad. Between the end of March and June's third week this year, the Germans had merely held what they retrieved from the Russian winter offensive. Nowhere had the Russians attempted an attack on the scale of their Kharkov offensive last year. Only in the Kuban, the Germans' last bridgehead in the Caucasus, had the Red Army attempted a major action, and this attempt had failed...
...along the front from Leningrad south into the Kuban, Russian fighter planes roared up to give the Luftwaffe battle. Near Leningrad Russian fighters sent 25 Nazi bombers crashing into the scrub birches and soft brown earth...
...South the warm sky above the Kuban was a shifting pattern of curves and smoking spirals as hundreds of German and Russian planes fought above the battle lines. Pravda reported that the wreckage of German planes littered the foothills near Novorossiisk...