Word: rotmistrov
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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From a trench freshly carved in the fat Ukrainian soil, Colonel General Pavel Rot-mistrov stared across the plain. In the distance smoke rose from burning villages. Buglike Russian tanks crawled forward, angrily broke up German counterattacks. Overhead, Stormoviks bombed and strafed. Before Rotmistrov's eyes ten encircled German divisions were being mashed out of existence...
Books and Death. In his dugout later, Rotmistrov met Soviet newsmen. Happily he talked of J. B. Priestley's Blackout in Gretley, of cabbages, and kings, and strategy. The newsmen were impressed: this tall, athletic man was a hero, one of Russia's ablest tank tacticians. Stooping over a map, he explained how the troops of the Second Ukrainian Front made a narrow breach in the German defenses, converted it into a major triumph...
...fast and sudden was Rotmistrov's tank thrust, the Germans had no time to halt it. Then the Red artillery began to pound the encircled Germans, the air force launched its air blockade. In 14 days, 179 three-engined Junkers bringing in food and ammunition were shot down...
...Hitler's order was clear: resist−or die. The Germans fought. Rotmistrov's old enemy, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, whom he had whipped a year earlier below Stalingrad, hurled eight tank divisions against the ring. The ring was dented, but it did not break...
...this time Hero Rotmistrov was elsewhere. Best guess: he was at the head of the tatnk forces which this week broke into the German stronghold of Krivoi...