Word: leningrader
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...Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, 68, lizard-eyed besieger of Leningrad...
Berlin would be defended stone by stone: "We cannot let Breslau and Königsberg put us to shame, much less Warsaw, Leningrad and Moscow...
...huge Russian voice, Nikolai Feodorovich Kolchitsky, Prior and Chief of the Administration of the Patriarchate, called out to each archbishop in turn: "Whom do you choose Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia?" Each intoned the same answer: "Alexei, Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod...
...Roosevelt of Russian Orthodoxy was born and bred in Moscow. Intending to be a lawyer, he went to Moscow University's Jurisprudence School, changed his mind after graduating, became a monk instead. A bishop since 1913, Alexei became Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod in 1933 during the church's dark days. Ten years later he gained fame as a great Soviet patriot and received the Defense of Leningrad Medal for refusing to leave the besieged city...
While "The Rainbow" lauds the resistance of the Russian partisans, a shorter co-feature, "Leningrad Music Hall," points to Soviet efforts and artistic successes in peacetime life. While it is pretty well chopped up, the picture has many intervals of greatness; its artistic appeal is universal, and avoids the language barrier necessarily present to some extent in "The Rainbow...