Word: volga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians this was a day of hope and rejoicing. For the Germans it was cruel. After their 850-mile advance from the Prut to the Volga, they were back at the end of 1,009 days at the river where they started...
...Voronov's guns struck. Three and four hundred to a mile, they were dug in along the Volga and the Don. When the 5,000-gun barrage lifted, Red tanks, infantry and cannon plunged into the holes. That day the Army knew: Voronov was right. His guns had fired 689,000 shells, destroyed 160 batteries, 293 machine-gun nests and 322 fortified points, killed 9,000 Germans...
...Stalingrad, like most films of real war, generates an even greater power from the dead-ordinary, rather messy shots which incontestably record the immense clumsiness, the spurts of craziness, the human ordinariness of war. The soldiers who crowd a boat to cross the wintry Volga, when the action turns against the Germans, do not look like a turn in the tide of world history: they look like a pack of freezing immigrants. When whole fields of guns go off, the spasm of trees, the twitching of grasses, the shuddering of the soil indicate war's vast violation of nature...
...Nevertheless, the 24 Russian cameramen who shot Stalingrad (eight of them were killed on their jobs) have provided history with some images of war as true as they are powerful. Some of the images: > A great, flaming city which seems to float on a tranquil river until the Volga also flames from the reflected holocaust...
...never had the peril seemed so black for the United Nations. The Nazis were near the Volga and the Nile. Another grand plunge and they would have the Caucasus, the Middle East and an avenue to junction with Japan...