Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian Secret Agents George Pavlov and Leonid Kornilov reappeared. They had been locked up in 1942 for trying to kill Ambassador von Papen...
Collapse of the Shutters. The great offensive in White Russia reduced the Finnish campaign, which had started last fortnight, to the status of a side show. Nevertheless Marshal Leonid Govorov went right on with his methodical, heavy-handed clearing of Russia's right flank...
Surprise. General Leonid Govorov's blow last week caught the Finns and their German allies by surprise. In next-door Sweden, observers predicted Finland's collapse within three months, voiced doubt that Nazi General Eduard Dietl would rush his nine divisions from the north to help the hard-pressed Finns...
...formidable array of Red generalship that faced the Germans: Konev, Malinovsky and Zhukov in the south; Rokossovsky and Bagramian further north; Popov, Meretskov and the liberator of Leningrad, Leonid Govorov, poised for attack on the Baltic countries...
Pobeda I. To short, rotund General Leonid Govorov went the credit for the most momentous of the four successes. A month earlier he had been besieged in Leningrad. This week the Leningrad front was no more: Govorov's armies fought on Estonian soil. Estonia's capital, Tallinn, was only 150 mi. away...