Orsha

The only time the train stopped for any length of time was in Orsha, which is where the train splits, with my half going on to St Petersburg, and the other half to Moscow.

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Finally, in mid-November, Zaslonov and a few others reached Orsha.

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The Russians were somewhat restricted in what they could do because their failure to take Orsha made a big gap in their rail network.

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The Russians were somewhat restricted in what they could do because their failure to take Orsha made a big gap in their rail network.

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The Germans held Orsha (attacked unsuccessfully 3 times, but out of supply) & Bobruisk (lost on 1st attempt, then regained) & areas Osipovichi & Dzisna.

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He and thirty other railwaymen from Smolensk and Orsha had left Moscow in early September.

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In mid-morning Halder picked up the phone in his Rastenburg Forest office and called von Bock in Orsha.

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At Army Group Centre headquarters in Orsha, von Bock surveyed the changing position maps in the manner of a football manager entering the final ten minutes.

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When his situation in Orsha finally grew too dangerous, Zaslonov left to form another detachment–eventually a 2,500-strong brigade–in the Vitebsk region.

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In Orsha the pfennig had finally dropped, but not in Rastenburg.

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