Word: timoshenkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After many a negative, Russia had its first positive victory last week. Russia's best general, Marshal Semion Timoshenko, retook Rostov-on-Don and for the first time made the Germans get their tails up and churn their shanks in the general direction of Berlin...
...Germans had advanced on Rostov in a narrow column, the left flank of which was insufficiently secured. Marshal Timoshenko drove down on the flank, then hit it head-on and sent it running. Before long the Russians claimed that the Germans' 14th and 16th Tank Divisions, 60th Motorized Division and two SS "Viking" Divisions had been pursued to Taganrog, 40 miles west of Rostov; that they were running for Mariupol, 65 miles farther west...
...this maneuver Marshal Timoshenko had used a familiar Nazi technique. He had allowed the enemy to advance until it overreached itself, had then struck. He had not, however, followed through with the complementary Nazi technique-encircling and annihilating the imprudent force. The Germans, though humiliated, were at liberty to turn around, as promised, and see that international law is more carefully observed by the population of Rostov...
British observers believed that Marshal Semyon Timoshenko was about to attempt to recapture the great industrial city of Kharkov from the Germans. The left bank of the lower Don and the Donets Basin was reported ablaze with Russian artillery fire...
Zhukov for Timoshenko. To stem the wave before Moscow, in the absence of Timoshenko, Stalin assigned General of the Army Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov...