Word: volga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian people show signs of wanting a break with their allies. The Russians wanted a second front and said so. Their newspapers printed accounts of second-front rallies in the U.S. and Britain. But there was no carping criticism of their allies' war efforts. In the Caspian, the Volga valley and in Moscow the man-in-the-street hailed U.S. and British citizens with three fingers held up together, a symbol of the Soviet-U.S.-British triple alliance...
...time, stopped short. Nowhere were there signs of disintegration of the Red Army, of any flagging in the Russian will to fight; of confusion, despair and flight such as heralded the fall of France. As long as the Red Army held together, as long as the mighty Volga and its parallel railway on the east remained in Soviet hands, the Battle of Russia was not lost...
...Stalingrad was never a holiday city. We always knew how noisily this industrial heart of the Volga pounded. Now, in wartime, the city has many concerns. Every man does the work of three. Almost every enterprise works for the front and. in fact, is on the front...
...Thus are working tens of thousands of people making munitions, ships and food products, and caring for the wounded. The river plays a vital part in industrial life. At Volga piers land oil tankers and other ships loaded with iron and foods. The noise of machines and the song of Volga dockers do not stop from dawn to dusk. Here we can see how the huge wheel of war whirls unceasingly...
...Russians beat back both arms of the pincers drive on Stalingrad, in dustrial capital of the Lower Volga, in ferocious tank battles, and they claimed to have boxed off one big German armored force in theat sector, but they admitted a steady retreat along the Southwest end of the Caucasus line...