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Such an offensive, if successful, would: 1) complete the entrapment of the Axis armies in the Don-Volga area; 2) bar the Germans' way of retreat to their last summer's line (Taganrog-Kharkov-Kursk-Orel) ; 3) finally doom the halting German drive in the Caucasus, perhaps cut off the Caucasian armies' last line of supply and retreat through the Crimea; 4) force the Germans to draw further on their dwindling reserves...
...opposition of two tactics, the lancing technique of the Russians and the strongpoint system of the Germans, that kept the front from knitting itself into the stabilized warfare of 1915-18 in France. From Leningrad, newly freed from the German, to Taganrog, there were at least ten separate pockets of German resistance, stoutly held (see map). The Russians surged between and around them, in great pincers. But the pincers were hard to close. The Germans held...
...Farther south, the Russians pulled another sneak near the Sea of Azov, advancing 115 miles beyond German-held Taganrog. Here their ultimate aim was to choke oft' German communications into the vital Crimea...
...Russia, from Taganrog on the Black Sea to Tikhvin north of Moscow, great Soviet armies battered retreating Germans back over the bloody snow, capturing hundreds of villages and inflicting terrible losses on the freezing Nazis...
Russian forces had caused Paul von Kleist to pick up his maps and binoculars and beat it from Rostov-on-Don 40 miles west to Taganrog, then toward Mariupol, 60 miles farther. Except for dismissing the whole affair as a diversion, Berlin spokesmen blushed and shut...