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...long Russian line across Hungary swung inexorably north. Budapest held with German-made firmness; Red Army units which advanced to its outskirts three weeks before had gone no farther. But eastward Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's divisions snapped railroads and highways one by one, captured town after town, reached to within 23 miles of the Slovakian border. Budapest was being flanked...
...Russians were already less than 50 miles from Budapest. A tank battle was already raging on the Hungarian plain. The country was ideal for motorized attack. By this week Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky had widened his front to 120 miles, captured Szeged, Hungary's second largest city, the Transylvanian capital of Cluj, and drawn near to Debrecen, where Patriot Louis Kossuth once declared Hungary's independence. But Malinovsky had a long, tenuous supply line, might be delayed until it was strengthened...
...Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army, driving north from Rumania, had already driven out onto the Hungarian plain. Last week, crumpling paper-thin Hungarian opposition, it reached the only water barrier before Budapest and the Danube - the Tisza River. With hardly a pause, the Russians crossed it 50 miles from Budapest, had a clear road ahead to the capital, where Nazis were already beginning to clear...
...armymen who had come from the Ukraine, through Bessarabia, through the Galati Gap, through the heart of Rumania at breakneck pace. To the east, General Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine Army was mopping up Nazi stragglers on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. To the north, General Rodion Malinovsky was stabbing through the Transylvanian Alps to the great plain of Hungary...
Across the hot plain, through dust clouds so thick that headlights were turned on in the daytime, Marshal Rodion Mal-inovsky's men chased German remnants toward the Iron Gate, where the Danube cuts through the Transylvanian Alps. Other Malinovsky forces swarmed to the Danube and the Bulgarian border on a 65-mile front. General Feodor Tolbukhin's army group reached southern Dobruja below Constanta. This territory has been Rumania's (disregarding Hitler's 1940 rearrangements) since 1913; Russia began throwing its weight around in the Balkans by referring to it, in the Moscow communique...