Word: praga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manifest & Open." In the Warsaw suburb of Praga, another election chairman told reporters, while the ballot box was still sealed, that 75% of the votes favored the Government bloc. He was not guessing; a neat variation on the secret ballot is to cast a vote "manifestly and openly" within clear sight of everyone at the polls. The P.P.R. (Communists) had formed its zealous members into trojki (trios) who had covered the country "inducing" voters to sign a pledge stating: "I commit myself to go to the elections and give my vote to the list of the [Government] bloc parties...
From Moscow last week came a description of Warsaw, as seen by a recent visitor to the Praga (east) side of the Vistula, where the Red Army's advance halted more than three months...
...almost 9,000 Germans who had defended Praga, only one in 20 was taken alive. The rest of the defenders were killed last week when the First White Russian Army and elements of Lieut. General Zigmund Berling's First Polish Army stormed the town-which bears the same geographic relation to Warsaw as Hoboken does to Manhattan...
...economic technique of enveloping such cities, demonstrated at Kiev. Last week they already had a bridgehead across the Vistula 25 miles southeast of Warsaw, from which the southern arm of a pincers could be forged; the northern arm was being brought to white heat as Rokossovsky drove northwest of Praga...
...been stalled on the Warsaw approaches by fierce assaults of German armor. The Polish rebels had vainly tried to prevent four Panzer divisions from getting through to the east for this fight. The Russians were forced to evacuate Ossow, a town seven miles from the Warsaw suburb of Praga-the first time they had lost a town since their summer offensive started. At week's end the Nazis were still able to mount 20 attacks...