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What about the Urals? The Russians have moved enormous amounts of industrial equipment behind the Ural Mountains, out of reach of the Nazis. Much of the machinery from the Dnieper River industrial area has been hauled out in freight cars...
...none too well. In the center, yes, Timoshenko was sharply counterattacking, the Germans were falling back. But in the north Voroshilov might soon be trapped in Leningrad. And in the south Budenny's defense of Kiev and Odessa was gravely threatened by new German eruptions east of the Dnieper. Aside from possibilities of more immediate catastrophes, if the Germans could hole up in these great Russian cities before winter, they might prepare crushing flank movements for the spring...
Brilliant Nazi Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt had smashed across the Dnieper at two points. He drove southward from the Gomel sector and took Chernigov, 80 miles to the northeast of the Ukraine's capital, Kiev, whence he was in excellent position to get in Kiev's rear, and complete its encirclement (see map). Even more dangerous to Russian hopes was his capture of Kremenchug, 160 miles to Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten...
...chocolate." But long, mild, dry days are soon due on this front. And here the winter comes late. The Germans, apparently feeling that they had plenty of time to break through to the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, last week went to work establishing bridge heads across the Dnieper. The destruction of the mighty Dnieperstroy Dam, confirmed last week by German pictures {see cut}, seemed to prevent crossings...
...Empire troops could cooperate in the defense of the Caucasus oil field if the Germans pass the Dnieper...