Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge flood of Russian might along the Oder and Neisse Rivers, fronting Berlin and Dresden, began to rise this week. The dikes crumpled first in the plains northeast of Berlin. Marshal Georgi Zhukov's forces, behind a tremendous predawn artillery shoot and attacks by swarms of bombers, broke into the Schwedt area below Stettin and set up a new Oder bridgehead 45 miles northeast of Berlin...
Four Armies. Marshal Zhukov probably had more than 1,000,000 men massed before the Berlin sector. To the north were some 500,000 more-the armies of Marshals Alexander M. Vasilevsky and Konstantin K. Rokossovsky. which had flattened the East Prussia and Pomerania pockets. To the south, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's big First Ukrainian Army was launched to hurl itself toward Dresden. Against all this massive weight was the largest force the shredded Wehrmacht could muster: perhaps 900,000 men in formidable defense positions. But greater German forces had failed to stop the Red Army when...
...eastern front the Russians were seemingly ready for their own last strong heave. General Andrey I. Yeremenko's Fourth Ukrainian Army inched in on Teschen and the Moravian Gap entry to the Czech industrial complex. There were rumblings of readiness from Marshals Ivan Konev's and Georgi Zhukov's fronts before Dresden and Berlin...
Meanwhile, on the Berlin front, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov held great armies poised for the final smash to join with his allies coming in from the west...
Nervously they looked southward, where Zhukov was reported to have 1,200,000 men massed, waiting for the flooded Oder to return to its. banks. Northward the Red Marshal's columns smashed their way into Altdamm, the last German position on the right bank of the Oder...