Word: petrov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad siding, General Vladimir Petrov, chief of Russian rail transportation in Berlin, sweated in his greatcoat as he directed other Russian officers who hooked engines to stalled freight cars. In its second week, the railroad workers' strike against their Communist bosses had effectively tied up Berlin rail transport...
...secretary (later first counselor) in the embassy at London. Two and a half years ago he was recalled to Moscow, promoted to his present job, which included censorship until the post office took it over six months ago. It is a post for men with a future. Apollon Alexandrovich Petrov, one of his predecessors, is now Ambassador to China. Another, the late Constantine Oumansky, became Ambassador to the U.S. and Mexico...
...incident in the taking of Košice, along the spine of the Carpathians in eastern Slovakia. Before Prešov, General Ivan Petrov had opened up in the orthodox manner, bracketing the slopes with shells as if in preparation for attack. But he sent a large column to cut in behind the enemy, over a mountain trail. He knew the trail would be heavily mined, that his men would take losses. They did. They also took...
...Russian army group fighting in Hungary had been stalled some 50 miles from Budapest for several weeks. Last week General Ivan Y. Petrov's Fourth Ukrainian army group fighting southward from Czechoslovakia eased the supply problem. A railroad and a road pass across the Carpathians were taken, and thus southern Poland and Hungary were linked through Transylvania. Five other Carpathian passes were also captured. Now Petrov needed only to meet roving Cossack cavalry and tanks from eastern Hungary to complete additional links...
...busy at the real thing to throw much paraphernalia into make-believe, Director Vladimir Petrov and his associates boil their war down pretty close to its essence: a duel of mind and spirit between Napoleon, who understood little except warfare, and the apparently sleepy Field Marshal Kutuzov, who understood his country and his people so profoundly that he all but embodied them. It was Kutuzov almost alone who realized that a Napoleon who had attained his goal, yet could neither engage in battle nor negotiate peace, was only a demoralized, helpless trespasser...