Word: vatutin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pobeda II. To the south 600 mi. another Red Army was driving forward on what was once foreign soil. Its chief was moon-faced General Nikolai Vatutin, captor of Kiev, perhaps Russia's most brilliant field commander...
This defeat delayed the Russian drive, but it did not necessarily imperil the Russian position. Behind the army of General Nikolai Vatutin lay a snow-swept steppe which offered the Germans no rich prize. By throwing all their waning strength into this battle the Germans betrayed their own fears-for the Bug, Bessarabia, the uneasy Balkans...
...Where It's Soft. In three weeks, Vatutin's men had rolled 150 miles to the west, 80 miles southwestward to Rumania. Moscow claimed they had killed 100,000 Germans, taken 7,000 prisoners, captured or destroyed more than 2,000 cannon, 2,500 tanks...
...Vatutin's Big Push was showing signs of exhaustion. His men were tired, his supply routes long. By & large, he had traversed the belt of German flight; now he was coming up against defenses his canny opponent, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, had had ample time to build...
...Army's Stavka (Supreme Command) this was a signal to turn to a well-tested stratagem: dispersed punching. German reserves had been shifted from above Vatutin's sectors north to south to succor Manstein. It was time to punch the weakened fronts...