Word: volga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory meant much more than the destruction of a great army. It meant the complete failure of Hitler's 1942 strategy in Russia: to outflank Moscow from the south, render the Volga lifeline useless to the Russians and secure the German flank driving through the Caucasus toward Baku and the Middle East. It also meant that the Red Armies defending Stalingrad and the Volga were free to push west and join the armies smashing at Rostov and Kharkov...
...Moscow dispatches noted two significant facts: 1) as of last week, the Germans held two positions on the Volga-the chief aim of their drive for Stalingrad; 2) of the 22 Axis divisions caught in and near the city, 20 were German divisions; only two were Rumanian...
...said, it was the encircled Germans who burrowed into cellars, turned into "bearded beasts" and subsisted on short rations of horse meat. Now it was the Germans who were pressed between Red troops on every side, as the Russians had been pressed between the Germans and the Volga...
...week. It drove down the Stalingrad-Caucasus railway, took the Germans' strong defense-point at Kotelnikov, and rolled on southward. The Russians said that these operations, like those on the Middle Don and northwest of Stalingrad, were part of the great plan to defeat the Germans on the Volga. The accompanying threat to other German armies in the Caucasus was real enough, but by Moscow's own account it was a future threat...
...Shapiro's assistant, Meyer Handler (once in U.P.'s Paris office); Shapiro had disappeared. Last week, when he returned to Moscow and feverishly began cabling copy, the U.S. found out where he had gone-to Stalingrad, to become the first U.S. or British correspondent to eyewitness the Volga city's battered battlefields. How he got the break, Shapiro did not explain, but in his delayed and heavily-censored dispatches, datelined "With the Red Army on the Stalingrad Front," he predicted that Stalingrad would soon be entirely freed...