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...Slaves. There were new recruits for the Nazis' Army of 2,500,000 forced laborers from conquered countries (TIME, Feb. 23). They were Ukrainian miners, ticketed to work in German coalfields, where slowdowns have decreased production. The scant reports from Germany gave no figures, but promised that "tens of thousands" more men & women would soon be brought into slavery...
...Timoshenkos (including the Marshal) are as Ukrainian-Russian as vodka. The name is as common in the Ukraine as Smith is in this country and is derived from Timosha which is the diminutive of Timofei (Timotheus). O. J. Frederiksen's "Hughes-ovka" (TIME, Feb. 2) is a tour de force. There are a number of hamlets scattered all over the Kuban country and the North Caucasus with the prefix "Youz" or "Yuz" which is Turco-Tartar for "hundred" and denotes the original post of a Sotnja or a troop of one hundred Cossacks. The language of the Cossacks...
...Lozovaya Timoshenko's troops were only 62 miles from Dnepropetrovsk and the site of the once great, now ruined Dnieper Dam. The Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic last week announced that before the dam was dynamited to render it useless to the Germans (TIME, Sept. 1), its 740,000-h.p. turbines and other power machinery had been dismantled and moved eastward to safety...
Several facts cast rather heavy doubt on Schoolteacher John's account. Timoshenko is a common Ukrainian name. Stalino, 61 years ago, was. a small town called Youzovka. Marshal Timoshenko, who would seem to have no reason for prevaricating, has always said that his father was a Russian peasant, Konstantin Timoshenko...
...administrative purposes the vast terrain was divided into two parts: the Ukraine and Ostland (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, White Russia). Doktor Rosenberg enraged many Ukrainian nationalists, who for years had hoped for Ukrainian independence, or a Reich Protectorate, by handing two big chunks of the Ukraine to others-Eastern Galicia to the Government of Occupied Poland, the great seaport Odessa to Rumania...