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...from the forests of Smolensk to the Sea of Azov, the Wehrmacht was falling back in what might yet be its worst defeat. Nazi bastions which a month ago were safely in the rear were now in peril. Taganrog, Yelnya, Sumy and Konotop had fallen. Smolensk, Poltava, Mariupol and Stalino (which Berlin once possessively hailed as "Russia's Essen") awaited the Red blow. For many, the blow might come within days...
...were on the offensive along a 155-mile front in the middle and upper Donets River regions, presumably near Izyum. Troops operating in the "area of Kharkov," Berlin said, had encircled the Soviet Third Tank Army. Other forces were said to have "stormed" Slavyansk, an important railhead north of Stalino, which the Russians had recaptured in mid-February. The Germans were evidently bent on holding the Donets salient as long as they could, regardless of what happened in north Russia...
...most serious Russian setback came in the Donets Basin itself, where the Red Army has been trying for two weeks to smash south against the main German armies. The Germans halted the drive with heavy counterattacks against the Russian right flank northwest of Stalino. This week Berlin claimed that other forces crossed the Donets River near Izyum. If this report was true, it meant that the Germans may succeed in breaking up the Red Army's drives through the Donets and toward the Dnieper...
...controversy over Marshal Timoshenko's ancestry (TIME, Jan. 5), there is one factor deserving of attention. Timoshenko's birthplace, Stalino, was not just "a small town called Youzovka" but a very English town, the first and one of the most important English industrial centers in pre-war Ukraine. The name Youzovka is itself English-a Russian spelling of Hughes-ovka-after its founder, a Welsh ironmaster named Hughes...
Several facts cast rather heavy doubt on Schoolteacher John's account. Timoshenko is a common Ukrainian name. Stalino, 61 years ago, was. a small town called Youzovka. Marshal Timoshenko, who would seem to have no reason for prevaricating, has always said that his father was a Russian peasant, Konstantin Timoshenko...