Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frozen plains of Rzhev before Moscow, on the Don and in the Volga corridor at Stalingrad, in the snows and floods of the Caucasus, the Russians are on the offensive. But, as of this week, the Russian offensives alone are not defeating the Germans...
...stands, retreats and counterattacks; the Wehrmacht's losses at Smolensk, Rzhev and Moscow; the men and weapons spent, the weeks forever lost at Sevastopol; the spaces of the Ukraine, the Kuban plains and the upper Caucasus, conquered but nonetheless expensive to their conquerors; and, finally, the pit of Stalingrad. No one of these great battles, sieges or marches in the greatest campaign of history exhausted or defeated the German Army. But in the aggregate they saved Russia and they saved the Red Army...
MOSCOW--Advancing Red Army forces broke the stalemates on the Stalingrad and central fronts yesterday, capturing several fortified villages and destroying their German garrisons on the Rzhov-Velikio Lukt line northwest of Moscow, a communique said today...
...Monday midnight communique failed for the first time since the Red Army launched its Stalingrad offensive on Nov. 19 to report Soviet gains on that front except inside the Volga city where more German strong points and their garrisons were annihilated...
...south, his force of 300,000 troops around Stalingrad were in danger of entrapment and annihilation. In the last ten days some 100,000 of his soldiers had been slain. A column that the Russians launched along the Stalingrad-Novoros-siisk railroad had traveled 90 miles by week's end, could become a threat to his armies in the northern Caucasus. Those armies had already been pushed back from Ordzhonikidze and the Grozny oilfields. Now they faced the danger of being cut off. A hole anywhere along the front-from the Caucasus to Leningrad-might open the dike...