Word: przemysl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lvov, the greatest rail city of southeastern Poland, was taken by wily, egg-bald Marshal Konev, commanding the First Ukrainian Army in place of Marshal Zhukov, who had gone to Moscow to be Stalin's deputy commander in chief. On the rail line to Cracow, Konev stormed Przemysl and Jaroslav. At Przemsyl he was 180 miles from the Silesian corner of Germany...
...front faces west, into Poland and the most direct route to Berlin. It faces broad plains on which lie the cities of Lwow and Przemysl, where several battles of World War I were fought. Zhukov, skirting the northern wall of the Carpathians, might drive for this old battle field...
Below the Pripet Marshes, the offensive went more slowly, because before it could roll, the formidable frontier fortress of Przemysl had to be stormed. And near Luck the Russians offered up a Gargantuan tank battle...
Luck: wootsk Puck: pootsk Lwow: voof Lodz: lutsch Pripet: pree'petch Brest Litovsk: bzhesch lit-ev'ski Bialystok: bia-ly'stock Vilna : vil'no Przemysl: pshe-meeshl...
...other Polish tracks in Soviet hands have been converted to the wider Russian gauge. But Moscow agreed last Sept. 3 to leave the 191-mile Sniatyn-Przemysl line in standard European gauge. Over them were to have rolled five 60-car trains each day each way to haul goods between Germany and Rumania. But they were far behind schedule; as of Feb. 19, less than 700 cars had gone each...