Word: volga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vladivostok-see map). But earlier he had told Congressional leaders that Russian armies were far from defeat; that the Russians would not sell out or make peace to avoid further battering, that the Russians would somehow last through the winter, that he believed they would withdraw behind the Volga River. He based his faith, he said, on Harry Hopkins' report from Russia, and on the estimated 40% of Russian manufacturing that lay in the Ural Mountains and eastward...
...Nazi plunge was alarming. It made Adolf Hitler's avowed aim of reaching the Volga by winter seem a possibility. If he did, it would not mean Russia's inevitable surrender any more than an invader's reaching the Mississippi would mean inevitable U.S. surrender. But it would mean that the easiest route for U.S. and British aid to Russia-via the Middle East and the Caucasus-was gone. Adolf Hitler would once again have succeeded in dividing his deadly enemies...
Storm Cloud on the Volga. Russia showed last week that it was also worried about the political weather of the area behind Marshal Timoshenko's lines. In the heart of Russia, by the Volga River, lay an ethnological storm cloud- the Volga German Republic. This was a colony of hundreds of thousands of Germans, descendants of peasants invited into Russia in the 18th Century by Catherine the Great. These Germans, potential fifth columnists, were last week ordered to move, bag, baggage and bomb, to Siberia...
...Urals, in 1910 was top man at the Moscow Imperial Academy. By 1917 he had become a Tsarist colonel. The next year he joined the Red Army and became a prime strategist of the war on the Whites. He has been an active Commander of the Leningrad, Moscow and Volga military districts, Chief of Staff, head of the Frunze Military Academy (Soviet West Point), and he joined Comrade Stalin at the signing of the Russo-German Pact (see cut). But his reputation has always been technical, bolstered by his authorship of several volumes of military history and strategy...
...Moscow. Usually they were denied, but at week's end U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt admitted that he was keeping only a skeleton staff with him in Moscow, that the rest of the staff had been moved to Kazan, 450 miles east, the longtime Tatar capital near the upper Volga some 400 miles west of the Urals. It looked as if far Kazan would be the next Soviet capital if Moscow was evacuated...