Word: smolensk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been through the suburbs which the Germans are approaching, driven 30 miles down the broad, smooth, Smolensk road-a point which must be approximately the location of the front lines now. The ground is gently rolling, woods interspersed with fields. The defenses are not continuous fortifications, lines of trenches or barricades. They are an almost infinity of strong points. Camouflaged positions are on every rise of ground and on the edge of every woods. And on the roads through the woods, when I was there, were columns of tanks, parked trucks, supplies...
MOSCOW--Soviet troops are clinging fiercely to the western and southern approaches to Moscow, the High Command reported today, but the Germans have created such a peril that all able-bodied citizens in the Smolensk district west of the capital were called out to fight...
Gist of the correspondents' reports on the Smolensk front-and inference of the Russians' having permitted the tour at all -was that the central front had settled down and the Reds neither planned nor expected a real offensive any time soon in that area...
...Reds were apparently not tuckered out yet, because a force with enough power to counterattack must be moderately strong. After the Germans claimed 633,000 prisoners in the Minsk and Smolensk areas Marshal Semion Timoshenko was still able to counterattack and stabilize that front (see p. 27). But upon what happens when the Germans have emptied the kettle of Kiev and are ready again to pound the wedge depends the future of British-Russian cooperation on a common front (see p. 25) against that artist of Keil und Kessel, Adolf Hitler...
Official reports to government and Red Army organs indicated that a full scale counter-offensive was developing from the Novgorod area north of Lake Ilmen to the Desna River south of Smolensk...