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Russia. Marshal Joseph Stalin said: "Victory is near." The Red Army captured Kiev, the Ukraine's capital, ended the summer-&-fall fight for the Dnieper and began the winter battle for western Russia. In the Nevel sector to the north, the Red Army was within 40-odd miles of Poland; in the south, 130 miles from Poland...
...hours earlier Stalin had an nounced the year's richest victory: the recapture of Kiev (see p. 25). Moscow's walls echoed the jubilant salvos of 324 guns, the pealing of the Kremlin's bells, the happy tumult of the crowds. Now, in Moscow and all over the land, men huddled before the loudspeakers to hear Stalin's report on the triumphs already scored, on the prospects for tomorrow...
...Stalin's listeners (see above) it was good to know that Kiev was free again...
...Russians Kiev was the "mother of cities," Russia's ancient capital, a venerated center of history and lore, a beloved and lovely spot. From Kiev, Slav buccaneers sailed on their raids to ancient Byzantium, down the Dnieper and across the turbulent Black Sea. A thousand years ago, Kiev's ruler, Prince Vladimir, was baptized in the sluggish Dnieper, made Kiev the heart of Russia's Greek Orthodox faith. When Berlin was still a muddy village, Kiev's famed Petchersky Monastery was green with...
Arrogant Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, who captured Kiev in 1941, was not its first alien invader. For eleven centuries, men of the sword-Variags and Khazars, Tatars, Lithuanians and Poles -ravished the beautiful city. The proud conquerors became dust; Kiev, with its seven rolling hills, its glistening church domes, its banks towering above the Dnieper, survived. It sprawled on the border between the rich, black-soiled south and the forested north, and their wealth was the plasma which always revived...