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When the Russians lost their Hango base in the Finnish Gulf and Leningrad was surrounded, the Red Fleet was assumed to be bottled in Kronstadt. The Baltic was a German lake and Sweden eased up on convoying. But the Red Fleet did not stay bottled. Submarines, perhaps other warships, broke through mines and nets blocking the Gulf and resumed raiding. Sweden last month resumed convoying. As of this week no German coal or coke had reached Sweden for ten days and Swedish papers warned that none could be expected for another ten. The United Nations had scored some success...
Besieged since Aug. 8, Leningrad is still ringed some 30 miles away by Nazi guns. Capture of Leningrad would 1) isolate the Kronstadt naval base, opening the Baltic as a German supply line to the northern front; 2) clear direct communications to Finland; 3) penetrate the Russian right flank, making the menace to Moscow even graver than last year's; 4) prepare for supplying and manning a major offensive to cut Russia's vital, northern supply line via Murmansk...
...went back to Russia and pushed his country's borders to the Baltic Sea. Then, by the Baltic Peter built the beginnings of his favorite city, St. Petersburg. The town grew, and Peter gave it a fortress touching the water-great Kronstadt. Peter called the place his "paradise,"eventually moved his capital there, by the water...
Last week, the third of Leningrad's siege, Kronstadt's huge guns were silenced by Nazi artillery and dive-bombers. The sea approaches to Leningrad were threatened as German naval and Luftwaffe parties battered their way onto the stubbornly defended Estonian Islands, Oesel, Vormsi and Moon. The Finns put new pressure on the sea fort of Hanko. German warships were reported steaming into the Baltic to smoke the Red Fleet and its stinging artillery out of the Gulf of Finland...
...line, made good use of a low semicircle of heights 15 miles to the south of the city. "Still shooting from all barrels," as Nazi correspondents admitted, Marshall Voroshilov's defenders repeatedly counterattacked. He announced that his forces had beaten off a minor German sea raid on the Kronstadt naval base, and claimed the capture of three villages, destruction of over 200 German tanks, 10,000 soldiers, on the outskirts of the defense line...