Word: yartsevo
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...Captured Yartsevo, the strongest barrier on the road to Smolensk, and Nezhin, the last strong barrier on the road to Kiev...
...Russians will have a hard time reaching Smolensk from the east and north before German counteroffensive reserves reach the area from the west and south. Between the Russian spearheads and the city lies a formidable system of German forts hinged on the town of Yartsevo. If those forts were to be backed up by German reserves moved up from the south, Russian chances of taking Smolensk would be small. "It is necessary," wrote New York Times Correspondent Ralph Parker from Moscow, "to keep a tight check on the impulse to assume that Smolensk is directly threatened with assault...
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