Word: timoshenkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That the Red Army still exists, and is still strong, the headlines announce every day. Is it strong enough to turn upon and defeat the sorely wounded German Armies? Its only important counteroffensives this year (at Voronezh and Orel, at Rzhev on the Moscow front) were failures. Marshal Semion Timoshenko's limited counteroffensive above Stalingrad in six weeks has failed to advance the Red troops the bare ten miles or so which they had to cover to relieve Stalingrad...
...Stalingrad the Germans claimed that they had finally taken the whole of the Red October airplane factory-"except one hangar." Marshal Timoshenko's counterattacks made meager progress, but in the city Red troops fought not only street by street but room by room...
...Army fighters who had been hammered slowly back toward the Volga during torrid August and September weeks. The reserves came from training camps in Western Siberia, not from the front line in the east where a section of the Red Army guards against any Japanese attack. If Marshal Timoshenko expected Stalingrad to fall he was almost certainly withdrawing-and saving -the bulk of his veteran troops for battles to come...
This disaster would be the loss of Persia, Iraq and the whole Middle Eastern bridge between the main land masses of Europe, Africa and Asia (see map, pp. 34-35). Marshal Timoshenko. fighting for the Volga and the southern Caucasus (see p. 36), is also fighting to avert that catastrophe. So is General Alexander, at his gate to Egypt and Suez (see p. 34). If either fails, or both fail, "Jumbo" Wilson will find the enemy on his bridge. His task is to assume that both will fail, and to do all that can be done to retrieve their failures...
Thus the Germans in southern Russia approached the objectives of their summer campaign. But they had none of the objectives. They had not destroyed Timoshenko's armies. Only when the summer is run, when the brief Russian fall is whiting into another winter, will the Germans know whether and what they have won. Then the Russians will have decided whether to stand upon their immediate southern line, somewhere near the Volga, or to withdraw to their bastions in the Urals. Then the Germans will measure their huge losses in men, planes, tanks and guns against the sure wear...