Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian side there was some doubt about the imminence of the attack on the Caucasus. It seemed more reasonable to guess that the Germans would first drive straight across to the Volga, perhaps at Stalingrad, thereby isolating the Caucasus and protecting the German flank for its drive south. If such was the program, it was not likely that the Caucasus would suffer attack for some time...
...important now because it supplies more than half of Moscow's electric power), were both in the paths of the German pincers on the Capital. Stalino, capital of the Donets region in the eastern Ukraine, was already passed in the new southern German drive toward Rostov-on-Don; Stalingrad, on the lower Volga and only 260 miles farther east, was threatened by it; and Staliniri and Stalinissi, in Georgia, might be cut off with the rest of the Caucasus by this same drive. Stalinsk, in the Far East near Manchukuo, would probably fall if the Japanese moved. This left...
...Just the same, the Germans could not help remembering what a difference the fall of Paris made, knowing what the fall of Berlin would mean to themselves. Last week the city itself was not immediately threatened; this week Joseph Stalin's Government was preparing to move, possibly to Stalingrad...
Young Timoshenko fought the White Russians and foreign intervention troops on many fronts, was wounded five times, in 1919 helped defend Tsaritsyn (now Stalingrad) where he met Comrade Stalin, who was in command. In 1920 Timoshenko took part in the Red offensive on Warsaw which was repulsed by the Poles under famed Marshal Josef Pilsudski...
...problem is the first step to its solution. Clients who have appreciated this approach include (besides virtually the entire automotive industry) the Governments of the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. For the latter, as consultant on the First Five Year Plan, Kahn designed factories at Stalingrad, Chelyabinsk, Kuznetsk, Nizhni-Tagil. Brother Moritz handled the job. For the U. S. he has just done the plans for $25,000,000 worth of new naval air bases at Midway Island, Honolulu, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Jacksonville...