Word: staraya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swamps and forests hugging Staraya Russa bodies rotted and weapons turned rusty. The town itself lay crushed beneath its stench of death. Here, for two and one half years, the Germans held on: to give up this powerful "hedgehog" was to unhinge the whole northern front...
Last week the Germans blew up their defenses, abandoned Staraya Russa. The reason, boldly scribbled across the map of war: fear of being caught by the fast, steady Russian advance from the north. To the jubilant Russians this was a victory as great as the destruction of the Eighth German Army in the Ukraine (see below), as the break-through at Krivoi Rog. This week they looked forward to a still greater triumph: capture of Pskov, railroad gateway into the Baltic States. Of the three Red armies driving on the thousand-year-old stronghold, the closest stood only 28 miles...
...vastly ambitious Russian scheme on the Smolensk front would probably entail strong flanking rushes-logically in the Staraya Russa and Orel areas. Although there had been local offensives at those two points for some weeks, they seemed to be spent...
...German counteroffensive in the north. Winter's freeze made the swamps passable, and Timoshenko used the waning weeks of winter to smash through so fast that the Nazis left behind enough equipment for a full army corps. At week's end Timoshenko's army was threatening Staraya Russa, Nazi-held fortress just south of Lake Ilmen...
Early in the Russian campaign they demonstrated that they could fly in replacements, guns, ammunition and food to surrounded units. Several large German groups survived last winter largely because of efficient Luftwaffe supply; officers "surrounded" near Staraya Russa took leave in Berlin, returned to their troops when the encircling Russian lines were still unbroken...