Word: volgas
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...from the south. Joseph Stalin did not scrap them. He gave them a new job, the clearest signal yet that Russia will fight to the last snowball: to form great new armies from raw conscripts, armies to take their stand beyond Moscow to fight for the lands beyond the Volga, beyond the Urals. The new armies will be ill-trained, ill-equipped, ill-fortified. But they would not be formed if the Russians did not still intend to fight...
Samara was founded at the easternmost bend of the Volga River in the 16th Century, during the reign of the weakling Theodore, son of Ivan the Terrible. It was to be a fortress against the wandering tribes of the steppe. At first its citizens were mostly Cossacks, but in the 19th Century there was a great influx of Poles and Germans-particularly from Danzig...
...German colony of the Volga grew until it numbered over...
...Hold Moscow tenaciously; it is a symbol. But when Moscow is pressed too hard, leave it as a core of resistance, like Leningrad, and fall back to a new defense based on the Volga. If that in turn is cracked, fall back to a new Russia for which plans have long been laid, in and behind the Urals. In each step backward, balance losses of men and ground against damage inflicted on the enemy...
...supplies more than half of Moscow's electric power), were both in the paths of the German pincers on the Capital. Stalino, capital of the Donets region in the eastern Ukraine, was already passed in the new southern German drive toward Rostov-on-Don; Stalingrad, on the lower Volga and only 260 miles farther east, was threatened by it; and Staliniri and Stalinissi, in Georgia, might be cut off with the rest of the Caucasus by this same drive. Stalinsk, in the Far East near Manchukuo, would probably fall if the Japanese moved. This left only Stalinabad, southeast...