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...quick campaign." The battle plan called for some 148 divisions -- more than 3 million men -- to attack in three main drives along a 1,000-mile front. One army group would strike northward, toward Leningrad; another army group from the Warsaw area would move north of the Pripet Marshes toward Moscow, which Hitler planned to level and leave forever uninhabitable; the southernmost group, from Rumania, would storm across the Ukraine toward Kiev and Stalingrad. "Operation Barbarossa" would smash Russia within six months...
...Sixth of the Earth. The Russian land is vast: 8,500,000 square miles. If the city of Los Angeles were tossed into the Pripet Marshes (it would fit quite easily), the Mississippi River would trace the line of the Urals, Boston would be lost somewhere in the Siberian plains, and there would still be plenty of room to fit the North Atlantic Ocean, as far as the Azores, into the emptiness of Soviet Asia. Within this huge expanse (one-sixth of the world's inhabited land surface), there is vast diversity, and some of the natural wonders...
...Factories. Like the movement he headed for over 20 years, Chaim Weizmann was born in one of the darkest corners of the Pale of Settlement, where the Russian Czars allowed the Jews to live. His father was a small timber merchant in the muddy village of Motol in the Pripet Marshes. One of twelve brothers & sisters, he went to school in the one-room village cheder, where the rabbi's goat stumbled about among the drying wash and tumbling babies. There and later in Pinsk, young Weizmann studied the Torah, got his first furtive glimpses of scientific books (forbidden...
Marsh Job. Sending his troops slogging through the Pripet Marshes, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky seized Pinsk, after bombarding it from gunboats sent into the Pripet River from the Dnieper. Then he started to erase the German salient in the marshes, at the base of which lay Brest-Litovsk...
...north, Marshal Bagramian began an encirclement of Dvinsk in Latvia. To the south, Marshal Rokossovsky captured the key junction of Baranovichi, whose railroads lead to Vilna, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk. In the treacherous Pripet Marshes, other Rokossovsky forces skirted the bogs along road and rail embankments, captured Luninets and attacked Pinsk...