Word: smolensk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center, they were untouched in Smolensk. The Russians were straining to blast the German concentrations from Rzhev and Vyazma, about 100 miles away...
...gains did not come. Instead a communique announced a full-scale attack on the central front, a push by tank squadrons and massed infantry, sharp aerial fighting. In the first day, the communique said, the Russian spearhead had reached to within 50 miles of the German winter headquarters at Smolensk...
Just as carefully they refrained from confirming or denying one of the most significant reports since the Russian counteroffensive began: that Russian forces have flanked the central German armies around Smolensk and have pushed into White Russia, a scant 70 to 85 miles from the old Polish frontier...
Russian columns streamed through White Russia, by-passing German strong points in a concerted series of thrusts calculated to whittle up the invasion army and render untenable the all-important Smolensk base...
There were increasing evidences that on the bitterly cold eastern front German resistance was stiffening and the Soviet offensive--now 10 weeks old--was slowing its rate of advance. It had not been stopped, however, and Russian salients below Leningrad and stabbing towards Smolensk and westward in the Ukraine constituted a real threat to the whole Nazi line...