At one time he stood in freezing water for three days while watching the German lines before a Soviet advance.

Their task, to throw back the Soviet advance, was impossible to achieve.

With the loss of this position, the road to Berlin lay wide open to the Soviet advance.

One final move in the south completed the 1943-44 campaigning season, which had wrapped up a Soviet advance of over 500 miles.

Only ambush parties were left to delay the Soviet advance.

That spending level, council officials said, would hedge against Soviet advances in parallell research.

"The Germans will be moving quickly to prepare for the Soviet advance."

They'd taken too many losses in their prime role of stopping the Soviet advance.

By the summer of 1944 the facilities were abandoned because of the Soviet advance.

However, Soviet advance was regarded by many as yet another occupation.