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...result, Nazi infantry and panzer divisions smashed to the outskirts of Leningrad. The unprepared, disorganized Russians sustained unimaginable losses; 28 of their front-line divisions were obliterated. By the time the Germans were finally stopped, the city was surrounded. Its only open access lay to the northeast, across Lake Ladoga, toward Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Past Too Terrible To Be Buried | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Since the committee includes, as the woman churchgoer noted, Russia's Archbishop Nikodim, the bearded Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, fundamentalist Protestant leaders also descended on Tulsa for a headon, pulpit-pounding, old-time religious confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Council: Confrontation in Tulsa | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...Error discovered at Ladoga...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Feeding Problems | 4/13/1968 | See Source »

...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Siege of Leningrad," an Iliad of a struggle in which the Russian city held out for 2½ years (August 1941 to January 1944) against German encirclement total except for one tenuous ice road across frozen Lake Ladoga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 19, 1965 | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: How To Wait | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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