Word: zhlobin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first week of the great push, five major Nazi strongholds fell: after Vitebsk (which had withstood two fierce Red assaults in the past year), Orsha, Mogilev, Bobruisk, Zhlobin. Nothing like this, in so short a time, had ever happened to the Wehrmacht before...
Farther south, the Russians straddled the railroad to Minsk and Warsaw, advanced on Orsha, while a long and powerful spearhead between Orsha and Zhlobin threatened to envelop Mogilev and Bobruisk, the Nazis' two main rail junctions in the bulge...
...victory outflanked Zhlobin, which he could not take by frontal assault. This week it also placed his army only 20 miles from a major enemy base at Bobruisk. Some 90 miles beyond Bobruisk, on the historic Smolensk road on which Napoleon lost his army, lay Minsk...
...railway" to the west. From the city and the railroad came the dull, angry answer of German salvos. Things were going badly for the Wehrmacht, but it fought on. Vitebsk was a dam; it had to be held. Its fall would imperil the strongholds of White Russia -Orsha, Mogilev, Zhlobin, Polotsk - perhaps lead to retreat beyond the prewar Polish border...
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