Word: budapests
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Then they seemed to stall in mud and German resistance. But eastward a new threat developed. The Russians broke across the middle Tisa south of Miskolc, piled northwestward in a drive that might leave Budapest cut off far in the rear...
Only in Hungary was the Red Army active, but there it was developing a program of action that sent shivers up Ger man spines from Vienna to Berlin. Although Budapest was still German, the Russian campaign had widened...
First the Russians had swooped far to the south to cut the Tisa River line, moved up between the Tisa and the Dan ube to the southern outskirts of Budapest...
Russian newspapers were already dismissing Budapest as just another milestone on the march to Vienna and Berlin, but it might still be hard to pass. The Germans, backed by the Hungarians of the Fascist Arrow Cross, were digging in for street fighting. Presumably they would fall back on Buda, force the Russians into a difficult (but not impossible) river crossing under the heights crowned by Fortress Hill and the Royal Palace. The Russians could count on their own power, on help from some Hungarians who saw that the affair was over, and now preferred to save their city...
...Inside Budapest sirens shrilled as Russian bombers and fighters poured over. Hobnailed Nazi boots clattered across the five airy, soaring bridges. (The sixth, St. Margaret, was reported wrecked by a premature explosion, killing 1,500 persons.) The rich and the fearful were streaming toward Austria. The kávéházak (coffee houses) were shuttered and gypsy music was still. Budapest was paying the piper...