Word: polotsk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans in 1940 did in France, the Russians hacked and slashed into the defense zones, cutting them to mincemeat, swallowing the pieces separately. Last week, after Polotsk, Borisov and Slutsk fell, giant jaws closed on Minsk, the last great Nazi stronghold in White Russia...
...Express-Train Tempo." Berlin's report to Sweden said: "The development of the Baltic and White Russian fronts is assuming express-train tempo. If the Russians cannot be halted along the Pskov-Polotsk line, sensational events can be expected in the Baltics in the nearest future...
...west. From the city and the railroad came the dull, angry answer of German salvos. Things were going badly for the Wehrmacht, but it fought on. Vitebsk was a dam; it had to be held. Its fall would imperil the strongholds of White Russia -Orsha, Mogilev, Zhlobin, Polotsk - perhaps lead to retreat beyond the prewar Polish border...