Word: ladoga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 1,300,000, mostly civilians, had died of hunger, cold and shell fire in the city. When in 1942 a relief road was opened to Leningrad across frozen Lake Ladoga, Zhdanov, iron-willed, withheld from the people the food it carried, ordered it stocked in the reserve. In Soviet propaganda the story of Leningrad has been overshadowed by Stalingrad, because the latter marked the beginning of the Red Army offensive. But if the Kremlin should decide (in order to underline Russia's strength against an enemy it can't reach) to stress the U.S.S.R.'s purely...
...Germans signalized their coup in Finland by parading third-rate troops around Helsinki, actually sent one armored division and a few planes to the wavering front between fallen Viipuri and Helsinki. The Russians, having retaken a 150-mile enemy-held stretch of the Murmansk-Leningrad railroad between Lakes Ladoga and Onega, were now shipping seaborne supplies direct from Murmansk to Leningrad on this line. On the Karelian front the Red armies were patently able to do their will...
Blasted Hopes. During the past fortnight the position of the Finnish Government has been dynamited. The army's defensive position has been broken and the military now admit that the eastern Karelian front between Lakes Ladoga and Onega (which they had previously considered an excellent natural defense) is actually almost indefensible. At the crucial moment, the Germans failed to deliver military...
...near Lake Ladoga the maiden's soldier, said the Germans, was launching still another drive. If this was true, he was undertaking the greatest Russian offensive of the war along the whole 1,000-mile front...
Miles to the west of Stalingrad's bloody battleground, Rokossovsky and his colleagues fought this week toward the fruition of the great Red Army's war. From Ladoga to the U of the Dnieper, the front was aflame and moving. The Russian maiden's light burned bright. And Rokossovsky knew how to lead the maiden's soldier through Hell and the Wehrmacht...