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Pavlov, 58, spent his childhood in Velikiye-Luki, a town of 100,000 people 250 miles west of Moscow. In 1938 his father, a Communist Party functionary, was accused of exploiting the area's peasants. He was imprisoned by Stalin's secret police, and his library at home was sealed. "I walked by that room every day," says Pavlov. "I will never forget." As soon as he could read, Pavlov pored through a tome on Stalin's 1930s trials. "From my father's experience, I knew that many had been unjustly treated," says Pavlov, who dates his distrust for dictatorships...
Dziepatowski was 21 or 22. Through other members of the underground he got Karski false papers. Karski was now Kucharski, born in Luki, in poor health, a primary-school teacher. He was sent to a photographer in a poor district, given a photograph that was enough like him to be claimed as his, but vague enough to be disowned if necessary. For two weeks Karski waited, memorizing the new story of his life...
Heavy rains came down upon the eastern battleground. The mud clutched at cannon and tank, swathed marching men's feet with a heavy, sticky cast, and blackend the battles' dead. But, from Velikie Luki down, nine army groups, including perhaps 27 armies, early this week pushed and plunged at the German Dnieper line - at Kiev and Melitopol, Zaporozhe and Dnepropetrovsk, Gomel and Cherkasi...
Victories. Bryansk and Novorossiisk were only two of a thousand victories, large and small, scored during the past week. From Velikie Luki southward, nine Red Army groups totaling perhaps 3,000,000 men were surging forward, crushing enemy "hedgehogs," sending the foe reeling back. Last week these armies...
...According to Stockholm, broke through the German defenses on the Velikie Luki front and sent a "Latvian Army of Liberation" toward the Latvian border, some 70 mi. away...