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Thus, last week, the capital of embattled Russia celebrated the capture of Kharkov. Thus, too, Russia let off some of the strain accumulated through two years of blood, tears, broken hopes and cruel disappointments. The celebration was a safety valve. Confident of triumph, Russia's leaders were now allowing the people to relax for a night, to laugh, to inhale the sweet air of victory...
...Army, the dropping barometer screamed for haste. By a prodigious and bloody effort, the Russians took Kharkov. But this skeleton of a once great city was no longer as important as it had been a month earlier. The Red Army sought space, not cities. Space was armor to protect the recaptured strongholds from counterattacks. Space gained was also momentum maintained-a crucial factor in a great offensive...
...Regained control of the crucial Moscow-Kharkov rail line...
...Driven to a 100-mile depth in the Kharkov push alone; retaken 4,500 square miles of territory, or half the area of Sicily...
...Recaptured the strongholds of Kharkov, Orel, Belgorod, Karachev...