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...fair question to ask why at this moment the Russian theater is so retrospective-why new plays are being produced this season on Ivan the Terrible and on Admiral Nakhimov of the Crimean War; why so much reverence is accorded to Chekhov, who perhaps foreshadowed the Revolution in his plays but certainly satirized revolutionaries. It has been fashionable in America to attribute this to an abatement of Russia's revolutionary and communistic spirit. This seems to me wrong. A better guess is that this country, shaken within a few inches of its life by this war, has, like...
...Sevastopol the Red meat grinder continued to chop up the remnants of the Crimean garrison. At sea, Vice Admiral F. S. Oktyabrsky's fleet waited for and attacked Axis ships as they tried to slip out for a desperate dash to Rumania, (last week's toll: 18 large vessels...
Execution. Early last week the time came. A tremendous artillery barrage erased German defenses at Kerch and Perekop, cleared paths for the two armies from north and east. The defending troops (including many Rumanians) fell back swiftly, then broke. Soviet columns raced across the dusty mid-Crimean steppe at 50 miles a day - and better. Russian cavalry slashed at the flanks of retreating elements, cut into main bodies. Red tentacles curled and spread all over the Vermont-sized peninsula...
Simferopol, the Crimean capital (prewar pop. 80,000), fell almost without a fight. So did the key ports of Yevpatoriya, Feodosiya, Yalta on the sun-drenched, wooded Black Sea coast. In seven days the Russians reported killing 29,000 Germans and Rumanians, capturing 41,000 more...
...Germans had no sea bases on the Ukrainian coast. They still held the Crimea, but Soviet men-of-war and aircraft hacked its supply arteries to Rumania. Last week a new Russian offensive drove 12 miles into the Crimean defenses behind which 100,000 Axis troops may be trapped...