Word: leningrader
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...German soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing. The U.S.S.R. lost over 60% of its coal production; total industrial output declined by one-half. Whole cities were heroes: the Battle of Stalingrad lasted seven months with as many as 40,000 people killed in one day, while the siege of Leningrad went on for 21 years and killed nearly...
...born and raised in St. Petersburg and is perfectly bilingual. He spent all but a few months of the war actually in Russia. As a sympathetic left-wing nonCommunist, he was given unusual freedom of travel. He was one of the only two Western journalists allowed into Leningrad during the siege. He kept a day-by-day diary, filed innumerable dispatches to British and U.S. papers, and turned his Russian war experiences into several personal-history books in the '40s. Now he has put it all into one book, drawing also on the voluminous official histories and the published...
...details are unfamiliar and fascinating. Strategically, for example, Werth rates the Battle of Kursk (north of Kharkov), in July 1943, as "Hitler's last chance to turn the tide," and thus as important as Stalingrad the previous year. Werth is at his best in eyewitness accounts of Leningrad or of his tour (in -40° C. weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the horror...
...leadership, even mentioned Khrushchev by name, accusing him of the mistake of not facing facts but "presenting the desired as reality" -otherwise known as wishful thinking. He then had the audacity to accuse Kosygin's budget of perpetuating some of the same "upsetting mistakes." Georgy Popov, Leningrad party boss, went even further and came flat out against the new regime's plan to return the control of heavy industry to Moscow direction from the local authority where Khrushchev had remanded...
...fellowship was beginning to ripen, a chap burst in to charge the Soviet poet with "almost pathological anti-Americanism," which he documented by quoting the poems. The rude fellow was Charles Moser, 29, assistant professor of Slavic languages at Yale, and a graduate exchange student at the University of Leningrad five years ago. He argued that "to give the Russians anything more than the most reserved of receptions is to encourage those dedicated to the repression of any sort of liberalization in Soviet life...