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...Russians also, by their own account, were throwing fresh men and machines into the fight. The battles of Minsk and Smolensk had given the huge Soviet mass time to mobilize. The Russians began to talk of new and better materiel which they were now using...
...Fronts. Hitler's battle for Moscow had its focus at Smolensk. He had broken through the Stalin Line at the gap near Smolensk-the open space between the defending Dnieper and Dvina Rivers, north of Orsha (see map, p. 16). Through the gap the usual spearhead poured and for the first time Moscow itself was a Luftwaffe target. In a five and a half hour night attack, 200 planes planted big explosions near the Kremlin, said Berlin. But the Russians declared that only "isolated" raiders got through, called the attempt a "failure...
Moscow: mosk'vah Smolensk: smaH'yensk Kiev: key'eff Kharkov: hark'koff Dnieper: dnyeh'pr Dniester: dnyeh...
...Germans continue to be annihilated at the present rate, they will be driven as far west as Smolensk by the spring thaw. Compared with Russia's gains in the past month, this is a considerable distance. But in terms of Germany's lightning drives from Smolensk to Bryansk and from Bryansk to the outskirts of Moscow, it is relatively small for the time spent. Yet the wishful thinking of the press has given birth to a widespread notion that the counter-attack is a large-scale rout, although any amateur pin-pusher can discover that the Soviets are doing...
...joke. After the time of Baal Shem Tob there arose a Habad ("rational") Hasidism, which urged men to be intelligent in their piety. The Habad leader was Rabbi Schneer Zalman, first of a line which took the name Schneersohn and the title Lubavitcher Rabbi-from their home town in Smolensk Province, Russia. Joseph Isaac Schneersohn is fourth in this line...