Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Red Army greatly improved its chances to win the war against Germany, greatly lessened the Germans' chances to come back this spring and summer. What had happened in south Russia, after the relief of Stalingrad, was now happening in the north. The Germans were retreating along most of a 700-mile front from Leningrad to Orel...
Pause in the South. For the first time since the siege of Stalingrad was lifted, the Russians last week could report no sizable gains on their southern fronts. And this week they admitted a serious German effort to split their front between the Donets and the Dnieper Rivers-a front which had to be kept intact if the Red Army hoped to bear down heavily on the German salient in the Eastern Ukraine...
...constellation Leo becomes Russia -"one end of Leo is a perfect sickle and the other end is much more like a hammer than any part of a lion." Lenin, Stalin and Timoshenko are brightly starred, with "room still for such names as Sevastopol and Smolensk and Stalingrad." China gets Cygnus (Chiang Kai-shek for Deneb, Confucius for Albireo, etc.). Germany and Japan get nary a one, but Hitler and Mussolini are placed in the constellation Draco (the Snake) renamed The Tyrants. Sirius, brightest star in the sky, falls in the constellation of South Africa and is called Smuts. There...
...celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Red Army: "The fact is that Fascist Germany is becoming more and more exhausted and weaker while the Soviet Union is more and more developing its reserves and becoming even stronger." Last October, when Allied military experts were declaring that Stalingrad was lost and Russian offensive power broken, Russians claimed they had in reserve 4,000,000 fully trained though not fully equipped men. They were prepared to throw this entire reserve into action the moment the Allies mounted a second front in Europe. When the Allies moved into North Africa, the Russians threw...
King George VI announced that a sword of honor was being struck for presentation to the "warrior city" of Stalingrad as a "token of the admiration not only of the British people but of the whole civilized world...