Word: kursk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stuffed with Shredded Paper. Many of the details are unfamiliar and fascinating. Strategically, for example, Werth rates the Battle of Kursk (north of Kharkov), in July 1943, as "Hitler's last chance to turn the tide," and thus as important as Stalingrad the previous year. Werth is at his best in eyewitness accounts of Leningrad or of his tour (in -40° C. weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the horror...
...long, Roifman's enterprise involved 52 factories, workshops and collective farms, was turning out sweaters, shirts and kerchiefs. Business was so good that Roifman had to expand into rented basements. After that, production increased rapidly. His total output, 460 tons, was retailed clandestinely at Moscow's busy Kursk Railroad Station through the collusion of two stationmasters, and at street markets...
...their second haul, department men arrested an artist named Valerian losifovitch Labzin in the act of turning over two heavy foot lockers to a charwoman on a platform in the Kursk railway station just before a train to the Urals pulled out. Inside the boxes were 1,000 small icons, 1,000 prayer leaflets, and 2,400 little crosses on chains, which the charwoman was to have taken with her to the Caucasus. Artist Labzin turned out to be a hardened criminal in Soviet eyes; he had two previous convictions for "underground printing of religious literature,'' which...