Word: volga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans were in Stalingrad. The Germans had reached the Volga...
...Said another German: "It is a miracle our troops reached the Volga. Soviet defenses were more than terrific. German soldiers have become silent after what they have gone through. Today they are living for their tanks only. They are separated from reality. They want to be left alone. They all want one thing-rest...
Russian reserves, drawn from western Siberia where Marshals Voroshilov and Budenny have been training huge new armies, were thrown into the Stalingrad struggle to relieve weary Red Army fighters who had been hammered slowly back toward the Volga during torrid August and September weeks. The reserves came from training camps in Western Siberia, not from the front line in the east where a section of the Red Army guards against any Japanese attack. If Marshal Timoshenko expected Stalingrad to fall he was almost certainly withdrawing-and saving -the bulk of his veteran troops for battles to come...
Precious factories by last week had been stripped of some of their machinery, which was shipped with skilled workers to safety beyond the Urals. River boats and barges, operated entirely by women, had ferried part of the famed Dzerzhinsky tractor plant (now converted to tank manufacture) up the Volga to Kazan, where it was transshipped on flat cars by the Trans-Siberian railway. Other factories still were producing war supplies. Soldiers and workers fighting one battle mingled in the crowded boulevards of the city...
...Caspian, into which the Volga empties, is a salt sea 83 ft. below sea level...