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...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...
...work of making munitions, erecting barricades and drilling the city's defenders never stops. The film has vivid shots of the lifeline that made Leningrad's resistance possible: the path across frozen Lake Ladoga, where railroad trains run on temporary tracks and trucks travel until late in the spring across the rotten ice. The most eloquent shots are those of the people: in Leningrad's streets death is so commonplace that no one turns to look at a small boy dragging a sled with a coffin...