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Southeast of Stalingrad, Timoshenko's forces were moving up. Under cover of subfreezing nights thousands of Russian soldiers were crossing the icy Volga on ferry boats, fishing boats and rafts, carrying with them the artillery, tanks and weapons they would need for a massive counterattack. Behind the bald, rolling Ergeni Hills south of Stalingrad, hidden by mists, they gathered and waited. In the cold dawn of Nov. 20 they attacked...
This week on the Stalingrad front, the Russians scored their biggest victory in nearly a year. In its immediate scope and consequences, the victory was "local"-the culmination of a prolonged, hitherto indecisive effort to relieve Stalingrad itself by blows at the Germans' flanks and rear, between the Volga and the Don. But its full possibilities, if realized-which they are still to be-might be immense. Disrupting Germany's winter line in the south, blocking the diversion of Nazi forces to the Mediterranean, perhaps cutting off the Germans in the Caucasus, were among the conceivable consequences...
...from Stalingrad's rear toward the Don and prepared for a stand there, the Russian advances might not have been a complete shock to Hitler. The facts remained that the Red Army had shown its best offensive generalship to date, that it had punctured the Germans' Don-Volga line, and that the battle was not yet over...
Last week Berlin's radio complained that in the Stalingrad region the temperature had dropped to 29° F. below zero. Floating ice clogged the Volga, stopping Soviet shipping for the winter and robbing Hitler of the only bitter satisfaction he might have received from the whole Stalingrad adventure. Radiators froze; narrow-treaded German tanks slid along weakly on their bellies; breechblocks became stiff; transmission oil jelled...
...Wounds. Russia has lost the coal and electric power of the Don Basin; she has lost the Ukraine's great feeding ground (see p. 36). Before the Don was lost, the Russians themselves said that it was second only to the Volga in national importance. If they have not been cut off from the oil, fish and ports-of-entry in the Caucasus, their access has been gravely impeded...