Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MOSCOW--The Red Army has killed or captured all but 12,000 of the 220,000 German troops trapped before Stalingrad, and their liquidation in the last phase of the great battle of annihilation is a matter of two or three days, a communique said today...
...High Command, announcing virtual completion of the bloody conquest in the Stalingrad death pocket, said Russian assault forces had slaughtered 10,000 Germans...
During the recent months, while millions of men fought for every street and heap of rubble in Stalingrad, Moscow women and a few men were tunneling through clay under the capital, circumventing subterranean streams, pouring reinforced concrete, installing ornate chandeliers and inserting mosaics. For while Russia's leaders have long preached and practiced sacrifice in the name of their country and their ideas, they have always striven to keep before the people some great symbol, beautiful and useful, so that any shawl-swathed peasant woman, any unshaven, fur-clad Siberian trapper could come to Moscow, stare openmouthed in admiration...
...relieved or shot. The Army's own Red Star has repeatedly complained that the Germans still outgeneraled the Russians. Last week Moscow announced that one of its famous generals-Marshal Semion Timoshenko (TIME, July 22), commander on the southern front when the Germans broke through and drove to Stalingrad-had been replaced...
...stead, directing the Red Army's counteroffensives to relieve Stalingrad, was aggressive, 48-year-old Army General Gregory Zhukov, who also had much to do with planning the offensive on the central front (TIME, Dec. 14). London reported that Marshal Timoshenko was still in high favor, helping Stalin prepare a final blow against the Germans. But, in a unique communiqué, Moscow announced a long list of generals who had distinguished themselves this winter and the name of Timoshenko did not appear among them. This unprecedented list personalized the Red Army with new names, new faces (see cuts) like...