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reconstruction of economy in regions,
liberated from German occupation". The
main accent was given to reconstruction of
coal, iron-ore and metallurgic branches of
industry.
September- The battle for the Dnipro river. On the right
December bank of the Dnipro river Germans built a
1943 system of fortifications “Eastern rampart”
trying to stop the offensive of Soviet troops at
Right Bank Ukraine. But the units of Red
Army, by extremely numerous sacrifices,
forced a crossing over the Dnipro river and
occupied a few bridgeheads. In the course of
the offensive, Zaporizhzhia and
Dnipropetrovs’k were liberated, it became
possible to liberate Right Bank Ukraine and
the Crimea.
November, 6 The liberation of Kyiv. Soviet troops
1943 suddenly attacked from Lyutezk bridgehead
in the direction of Kyiv. Despite huge losses
(40 thousand soldiers died in the area of
Bukryn), Kyiv was taken.
November, 21- І Conference of enslaved nations. It was
23 1943 conducted by the imitative of OUN(b) aiming
at formation of anti-Bolshevist block of
nations , enslaved by Stalin’s communist
system.
November, 28 Teheran Conference of leaders of union
– December, 1 states: the USA – F. Roosevelt, Great Britain
1943 – W. Churchill, the USSR – Y. Stalin. One of
the issues solved was to define a boundary
with Poland along “Curson’s line”.
December, 24 The winter offensive campaign of Soviet

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