Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zhukov's field command of the First Ukrainian Army was then taken over by Marshal Ivan Konev. Now it is the left arm of the offensive, striking at Silesia. When Zhukov returned to the field, he took over from tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, who moved to command the Second White Russian Army, now the right arm of assault aimed at lopping off East Prussia...
From the bridgehead, the Third Ukrainian Army of brilliant, heavy-set Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin then began an offensive. Despite the constant drizzle and occasional snow, despite rivers and swamps and wide ditches, the Russians spread out on the plain like a Danube flood. Through the railroad network of southwest Hungary they swelled to within 21 miles of Lake Balaton, central Europe's largest, reached 72 miles from Austria's nearest frontier. Mud was a curse. Moscow newspapers told of one unit that wallowed through mud for days, finally reached its first highway. Men cheered when they...
...Russian army group fighting in Hungary had been stalled some 50 miles from Budapest for several weeks. Last week General Ivan Y. Petrov's Fourth Ukrainian army group fighting southward from Czechoslovakia eased the supply problem. A railroad and a road pass across the Carpathians were taken, and thus southern Poland and Hungary were linked through Transylvania. Five other Carpathian passes were also captured. Now Petrov needed only to meet roving Cossack cavalry and tanks from eastern Hungary to complete additional links...
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army, driving north from Rumania, had already driven out onto the Hungarian plain. Last week, crumpling paper-thin Hungarian opposition, it reached the only water barrier before Budapest and the Danube - the Tisza River. With hardly a pause, the Russians crossed it 50 miles from Budapest, had a clear road ahead to the capital, where Nazis were already beginning to clear...
...long-awaited trial of German war criminals was: five Germans convicted of rape, four of cruelty to animals, five of reckless driving in congested areas. Countries ravaged by Hitler demanded the return of their looted property. They got it promptly: Austria received 198,371 Tyrolean hats, Russia got 16 Ukrainian ikons, France 1,835 empty champagne bottles and a heap of silk stockings full of runs...