Word: zhukov
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Lvov, the greatest rail city of southeastern Poland, was taken by wily, egg-bald Marshal Konev, commanding the First Ukrainian Army in place of Marshal Zhukov, who had gone to Moscow to be Stalin's deputy commander in chief. On the rail line to Cracow, Konev stormed Przemysl and Jaroslav. At Przemsyl he was 180 miles from the Silesian corner of Germany...
...Germans announced that they had evacuated Kovel, that Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov's armies had advanced to the Bug River, between Kovel and Lublin, had thus penetrated "the Government General of Poland" (i.e., crossed the Russian-German, partition line of 1939). It was here, on the southern Polish plains, that the Germans had feared the heaviest Rus sian blows...
...formidable array of Red generalship that faced the Germans: Konev, Malinovsky and Zhukov in the south; Rokossovsky and Bagramian further north; Popov, Meretskov and the liberator of Leningrad, Leonid Govorov, poised for attack on the Baltic countries...
Konev might make a strong thrust for the gap, pinning down German forces there, while the main Soviet offensive was launched in southern Poland, on the broad plain between the Carpathians and the Pripet marshes. In a pincer attack from north and south, Zhukov, enveloping Lwów, would find himself on the road to the Silesian corner of Germany proper...
Five hundred miles to the northwest, another victory was won. For almost six weeks the army of Marshal Georgy Zhukov had fought in the ruins of Tarnopol. When the battle ended last week, he had the town. Moscow reported 13,600 Germans dead there, 2,400 captured...