Word: russa
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...vastly ambitious Russian scheme on the Smolensk front would probably entail strong flanking rushes-logically in the Staraya Russa and Orel areas. Although there had been local offensives at those two points for some weeks, they seemed to be spent...
...counteroffensive in the north. Winter's freeze made the swamps passable, and Timoshenko used the waning weeks of winter to smash through so fast that the Nazis left behind enough equipment for a full army corps. At week's end Timoshenko's army was threatening Staraya Russa, Nazi-held fortress just south of Lake Ilmen...
Early in the Russian campaign they demonstrated that they could fly in replacements, guns, ammunition and food to surrounded units. Several large German groups survived last winter largely because of efficient Luftwaffe supply; officers "surrounded" near Staraya Russa took leave in Berlin, returned to their troops when the encircling Russian lines were still unbroken...
...Russians still talked hopefully of knocking off the pocket of Staraya Russa, of taking Kharkov, richest military prize of all. They still might. But progress was agonizingly slow. And losses on both sides were heavy. In any well-regulated old-fashioned war the front would long since have dropped into hibernation, while both sides girded themselves for the spring...
...north, the Germans still pocketed Leningrad. They beat off Russian thrusts around Staraya Russa and held that city with as few as 60,000 men, by Russian admission...