Word: ukrainians
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...born in Kharkov, Russia, in 1899, the son of a successful novelist and playwright-grew tip in St. Petersburg-finished school there just before the revolution). He is low-voiced, restrained-and he wears rimless pinch-nose glasses (he served for five months as a machine gunner in the Ukrainian Army, then signed as seaman on a munitions ship bound for America-reached New York unable to speak English and with only 14? in Turkish money in his pocket. For months he worked as an engraver's assistant at $13 a week-lost his job when he asked...
...struck close to Hans Hube. His son had been killed on the Eastern front; his daughter had died in an air raid on Berlin. He himself, the Reich's famed one-armed tank general, had barely managed to slip out of the Russians' reach on the hostile Ukrainian steppe...
...Germans had no sea bases on the Ukrainian coast. They still held the Crimea, but Soviet men-of-war and aircraft hacked its supply arteries to Rumania. Last week a new Russian offensive drove 12 miles into the Crimean defenses behind which 100,000 Axis troops may be trapped...
...controls the bulk of the resistance forces. Certainly opposed to the London Government is Poland's young Partisan underground, led by Polish Communists. The Partisans are probably dominant east of the Curzon Line, in territory claimed by the Russians and among Poland's old White Russian and Ukrainian minorities...
...Russians, the remainder of the Ukrainian campaign was a cleanup operation, but it had to be cleaned up in a hurry. The Germans obviously intended to slow them up as much as possible-for time to the Germans means opportunity to anchor a new front in Rumania...