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Ever since the battle of Narva and Pskov in 1918,* when the Bolsheviks won their first military victory, Feb. 23 has been Red Army Day in the U.S.S.R. Last week the Red army celebrated its 37th anniversary with the customary pomp but with special significance: for the first time since Narva and Pskov, its top officers hold highest political jobs...
...shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok, Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
...Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
...Last Town. Almost everywhere else on the 750-mile front from Lake Peipus to Stanislavov, the Russians made enormous gains. Pskov, the last Russian town held by the Germans, fell to the armies of Colonel General Ivan Masslennikov, another newcomer to this front who had distinguished himself in the Caucasus...
...Chairs. One of the bitterest blows of a bitter German week was the sudden appearance, east of the Latvian border, of stocky, limping General Andrei Yeremenko, seven-times-wounded hero of Stalingrad, Smolensk, the Crimea. Between Drissa and Pskov, quiescent up to last week, lay the last thin strip of Soviet territory still in German hands. Attacking on this 100-mile front, Yeremenko made gains up to 25 miles. On the narrow Issa River, the Germans blew up their ferries and crossings, but Yeremenko's doughty men swarmed across on small boats, rafts and logs...