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...Capitals formerly occupied, now freed by the Red Army are: Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, liberated Nov. 6, 1943; Petrozavodsk, Karelo-Finnish S.S.R., June 19, 1944; Vilna, Lithuanian S.S.R., July 13; Minsk, Belorussian S.S.R., July 14; Kishinev, Moldavian S.S.R., Aug. 24; Tallinn, Estonian S.S.R., Sept. 22. There remained only Riga, Latvian S.S.R...
Down the Carpathian flank of the funnel poured General Rodion Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army. A massive artillery barrage cracked the concrete firing points built by the Germans around Jassy, Rumania's second city (pop. 100,000) and ancient capital, famed for monasteries and native daughter Magda Lupescu...
...hours Russians and Germans fought a savage street battle. Then the city fell. The Second Ukrainian Army lunged southward through ripening wheat and corn, sent spearheads westward into the beech-clad Carpathian foothills, penetrated Hungarian-held Transylvania. At week's end it hammered past Focsani, western anchor of the Gap's defenses and a main junction on the railway to Ploesti...
Meeting in the Center. Along the Black Sea flank of the funnel raced General Fedor Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army. A huge breach opened in the Nazi lines. A column sickled westward into the funnel's center, joined troops of Malinovsky's army. Kishinev, pogrom-haunted seat of Bessarabia, was stormed. Below the city the Russians closed a noose around 60,000 Germans. Then the Third Ukrainian sped down the coast. At week's end it stood deep within the sprawling, muddy Danube Delta, held the old Turkish fortress town of Ismail, swept into Galati, eastern...
Lvov, the greatest rail city of southeastern Poland, was taken by wily, egg-bald Marshal Konev, commanding the First Ukrainian Army in place of Marshal Zhukov, who had gone to Moscow to be Stalin's deputy commander in chief. On the rail line to Cracow, Konev stormed Przemysl and Jaroslav. At Przemsyl he was 180 miles from the Silesian corner of Germany...