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Word: staliniri (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...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 only Stalinabad, southeast of Samarkand, and another Stalinsk, a new industrial city in what might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Appointment in Samara | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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