Word: karelians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prince and his escort moved on. They had passed from Finnish soil to soil the Russians had stolen from Finland; now they moved on to soil the Finns had just stolen from Russia-ancient Karelian soil, not Russian, said the Finns. As they went the Finnish officers explained why Finns keep on fighting Russia...
Admitting that "hunger and internal confusion as aids in breaking the Russian resistance" were unpredictable elements, the Germans undertook a heavy and lengthy bombardment of the city. All day long-range Nazi cannon, skulking in ash-colored Karelian soil, cracked high explosives into Leningrad's defenses. All night the Eighth Air Corps and the ugly "black beetles" of the Luftwaffe's smart Richthofen Squadron dealt out destruction, until the night glowed red with fire and death...
North. Although they lost Viipuri on the Karelian Isthmus to the Finns last week and were driven out of Tallinn in Estonia by the Germans, the Russians still held Leningrad and denied that the railroad to Moscow had been cut as Berlin claimed. In modern war the taking of a large city is a tough and costly job if its citizenry is as determined on a last-ditch defense as was, for instance, the citizenry of Madrid. It is more than likely that there is plenty of this spirit in Leningrad. Last week a bulletin from there declared...
...week's end, despite denials from Helsinki and Berlin, Uncle Joe Stalin appeared to be trying to maneuver Finland out of the war. He withdrew 15 divisions from the Karelian Isthmus. Having recaptured Viipuri, which the Russians took from them in 1940, the Finns, by the Russians' withdrawal, will now have virtually all their pre-1940 territory back again. Stalin evidently hoped that the Finns, anxious to retain the friendship of the U.S. and embarrassed by their alliance with Hitler, might now pile arms and pull out of the campaign...
...uttered, the enemy's hobnailed foot was on the city's threshold. The Germans had passed Kingissep, only 70 miles to the southwest, and Novgorod, no miles southeast. The city's railroad lines to Moscow were threatened. From the north Finns and Germans pressed down the Karelian Isthmus to within 50 miles of the city...