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...Chernyakhovsky was the youngest Army general. A colonel at the war's beginning, he became one of the Red Army's top tank strategists. He scored notable victories over the Germans at Kursk, Voronezh, Tarnopol, Vitebsk. He was Kiev's liberator. His troops (he commanded more than 500,000) were the first to set foot on German soil-in East Prussia. There, in the current offensive, his and Marshal Rokossovsky's men had taken all but 700 of that province's 14,300 square miles...
This extension of the active front (to 500 miles) put the Nazi in the highly uncomfortable position of a man standing on two chairs which are being slowly pulled apart. The Germans declared that the Red offensive had spread as far south as Tarnopol, opposite Lvov. About this sector, the Russians were mum. But on their long-range goal, they were by no means mum. The Moscow radio blared: "Russian armies are smashing westward, and . . . the game is up. The Germans squealed at our declaration that we were making straight for Berlin, but these were no empty words...
Five hundred miles to the northwest, another victory was won. For almost six weeks the army of Marshal Georgy Zhukov had fought in the ruins of Tarnopol. When the battle ended last week, he had the town. Moscow reported 13,600 Germans dead there, 2,400 captured...
...Tarnopol's fall removed a barrier from the Red path toward the fortress of Lwów, about 70 miles away, secured the flank of the force poised to strike across the Carpathians and into the Balkans...
...long southern front now ran across a fertile, oil-soaked chunk of Rumania and then wandered to the northwest along the Carpathians. On the wrong side of this front, isolated clusters of German troops continued to fight. Moscow reported that five Nazi divisions had been destroyed above Odessa. At Tarnopol the embattled garrison was being whittled down. In the forests near Skala ("Rock") on the middle Dniester, Red units battled the detachments of 15 Nazi divisions...