Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generals Forward. But now in Hungary Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin, the bull-like, flower-loving Ferdinand of the Red Army, sent the 60 generals of his Third Ukrainian Army group forward. By their side moved 27 generals of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army group and a Red Fleet Rear Admiral of the Danube Flotilla. Along a 90-mile front, from Lake Balaton to the Danube, 1,000,000 Russians were on the march. Others stormed over the Hron River north of the Danube...
...Silesia stocky Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian Army group hammered southward from its Oder bridgehead. Konev's troops neared the gateway to the Ziegenhals Pass, and the Czechoslovakian city of Moravska Ostrava, guarding the Moravian...
...German command was plainly shaken. It was not proper that Marshal Ivan Konev's First Ukrainian Army had been able to penetrate six deep belts of defense between the starting point of his offensive and Gleiwitz. It was not in the books that his Russians could so quickly chew up the ring of gun points, trenches, minefields, tank traps that circled Gleiwitz and the other heavily populated cities...
...offer was made by way of the Warsaw (formerly Lublin) Polish Government, which indicated that it might be willing to trade Teschen in return for Czech recognition. The threat was made by way of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, whose Kiev radio unexpectedly broadcast a claim to the Czechoslovak province of Carpatho-Ukraine (also known as Ruthenia), the only part of Czechoslovakia yet liberated by the Red Army. The Teschen area (500 sq. miles), rich in coal and heavily industrialized, had been tossed by Adolf Hitler as a sop to Poland after Munich. Backward, mountainous Ruthenia (4,886 sq. miles...
...Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was reported to have sent a disturbing note to the Czech Government in London: the Soviet would respect its promise, but Ruthenia showed a strong tendency to join the Soviet Ukraine. Said the Kiev radio: most of Ruthenia's 800,000 citizens speak a Ukrainian dialect, have voted in a plebiscite (organized by the Ruthenian Communist Party) for incorporation in the Ukraine. Already Peoples' Committees were dividing large landholdings among the peasants...