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...recapture Kiev, the Russian Supreme Command had picked two of its ablest field commanders: Generals Konstantin Rokossovsky and Nikolai Vatutin. Their armies arrived before Kiev in September, weary after the summer's cruel fighting. For many weeks, they stood in an arc before the city, regained strength, indifferently pounded the enemy defenses...
Closer to the Dnieper than Rokossovsky were his teammates, Army Generals Nikolai Vatutin, whose sector hung over Poltava, and Rodion Malinovsky, now almost within gun range of Zaporozhe...
...Army General Nikolai Vatutin, captor of Sumy and co-captor of Kharkov. A massive man with a peasant's round face, he is one of the Red Army's veteran tankmen. In World War I he was a private. The Civil War gave him an opportunity to display his talents, saw him rise to the command of a cavalry division. Today his soldiers rate Vatutin as a "driving general," recall with awe last winter's campaign, when with fury and disdain for physical suffering he hurled his men into attack in the fiercest blizzards until the Nazi...
Died. Dmitri Hitch Ulyanov, 69, physician, onetime revolutionary, youngest brother of the late Nikolai Lenin; in Gorky, Russia. He was twice jailed before the Communist Revolution made him Vice Commissar of the Crimean Soviet Republic...
...First International had been broken after the defeat of the Paris Commune in 1871; the Second (Socialist) International had been irreparably weakened by World War I; but neither had committed suicide. And the Third International was a creation of modern Russia's founder, Stalin's master, Nikolai Lenin. Summoned by that greatest of revolutionaries, 51 delegates from 30 countries, including the U.S., met in Moscow in March 1919 to try to unite the working-class movements of the world...