Word: moscow-rostov
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...Russians broke through again on the Don Front. They encircled Millerovo with deception and strength, then cut the Moscow-Rostov railroad at Glubokaya...
...Moscow-Rostov railway, which runs parallel to, and just west of, the Don along part of its course, connects the capital with southern Russia and the Caucasus, and, like the river, feeds much of Russia's industrial and military machine...
Immediately at stake in the Kursk and Kharkov fighting was the important Moscow-Rostov railway, which not only supplies the Russian armies along a vast front south of Moscow, but leads to the Caucasus and its oil. If the Germans cut this railroad, as they did last year when they briefly held Rostov, they will be well on their way to the Caucasus. And, on their way to the railway, they will have to inflict great defeats on the Red Army-the only kind of defeats which can win the summer campaign for Hitler. This week those defeats were still...
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