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| | SISSCO - Rassegna stampa - The Siege of Budapest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | At the end of October, Stalin ordered Marshal Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky, the commander of one of the two main Russian armies in Hungary, to take Budapest as soon as possible. |
 | | The first Russian advance units reached the outskirts of the capital a few days later; but Malinovsky was, as yet, unable to penetrate and conquer the city, whose real siege had not begun until Christmas, when the other great Russian army, commanded by Marshal Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin, had encircled it from the southwest. |
 | | Here I must register a slight (very slight) disagreement with my excellent friend Ungváry. |
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