With the Red Army rapidly approaching Dnepropetrovsk, it is interesting to recall the greatest demolition job of all time, when the Russians, in the autumn of 1941, destroyed the huge dam on the Dnieper River, thereby depriving Germans of one of the prizes of the Ukraine. A Nazi officer in foreground viewing the wrecked dam with burning industrial plants in the background.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 37, 13 February 1943, Page 5
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62With the Red Army rapidly approaching Dnepropetrovsk, it is interesting to recall the greatest demolition job of all time, when the Russians, in the autumn of 1941, destroyed the huge dam on the Dnieper River, thereby depriving Germans of one of the prizes of the Ukraine. A Nazi officer in foreground viewing the wrecked dam with burning industrial plants in the background. Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 37, 13 February 1943, Page 5
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