Word: stalingraders
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There was also a sporting pride in the fact of Russia's comeback: in two years the Russian nation in arms had climbed back 1,300 miles from retreat (finally halted at Stalingrad) to crashing victory on the Polish plains...
...that Moscow's Free Germany Committee was preparing to move into East Prussia on the heels of the Russian troops. There was talk, still unconfirmed, of a Provisional German Government. Reported Sofia radio: its head would be Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, captured commander of Germany's Stalingrad armies, who last year joined the Free Germany Committee. Over the Sofia radio he was calling upon the Wehrmacht to end the German ordeal by surrendering to the Russians. Meanwhile ABSIE (American Broadcasting Station in Europe) broadcast that the first Russian governor of occupied Germany "has taken up his functions...
...Army's most brilliant strategists. Stalin has fullest confidence in him. Zhukov had been his chief of staff, in charge of Moscow's defense, during the first awful months of the Wehrmacht's invasion. He had been the shaper and adviser of the Stalingrad counteroffensive, engineer of the Red Army's sweep through the Ukraine...
...Germans had hoped to make another Stalingrad of stately, romantic Budapest. The city was a natural fortress in the first major defense line of Germany's deep backyard. The heights of Buda, rising some 770 feet above the Danube, commanded the approaches to Pest. The Germans had time to rim the city with strong points. The 950-foot river itself was a formidable last ditch. The Germans had men and machines. The Russians had to bring both over a tenuous supply line that looped far around the Carpathians...
They lined up for photographs. Pat Hurley reviewed a hastily assembled guard of honor. Bugles blared. General Hurley snapped to attention, saluted. Then he gave China's Communists the greeting that had wowed the Russians-the Choctaw war whoop he taught Red Army men at Stalingrad: "Yahoo...