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Over the caked mud of the Kuban region and on thaw-softened battlefields stretching northward for 1,500 miles, the Wehrmacht and the Red Army prepared for the summer struggles...
...defeating the Germans. Old victories and old defeats are defeating the Germans: the Red Army's stands, retreats and counterattacks; the Wehrmacht's losses at Smolensk, Rzhev and Moscow; the men and weapons spent, the weeks forever lost at Sevastopol; the spaces of the Ukraine, the Kuban plains and the upper Caucasus, conquered but nonetheless expensive to their conquerors; and, finally, the pit of Stalingrad. No one of these great battles, sieges or marches in the greatest campaign of history exhausted or defeated the German Army. But in the aggregate they saved Russia and they saved...
Tonight Red troops poured through en route to the front. The old man and all other Cossack cottagers retired, planning how nothing must be left for the enemy except a scorched waste. Such is the decision of the Kuban Cossacks, the glorious descendants of the Cossacks of Zaporozhye Sech, who also burned and destroyed everything...
Russian troops retreating through the Caucasus have put the torch to the wheat fields and granarles of the Kuban valley, one of the richest farm areas in the country, Moscow announced Sunday, and the Germans claimed to have captured both Maikop and Krasnodar, pipe line and refinery centers of the Maikop oil fields...
...common in the Ukraine as Smith is in this country and is derived from Timosha which is the diminutive of Timofei (Timotheus). O. J. Frederiksen's "Hughes-ovka" (TIME, Feb. 2) is a tour de force. There are a number of hamlets scattered all over the Kuban country and the North Caucasus with the prefix "Youz" or "Yuz" which is Turco-Tartar for "hundred" and denotes the original post of a Sotnja or a troop of one hundred Cossacks. The language of the Cossacks is full of words of Tartar origin and so are the names of their villages...