Word: leningrader
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Marshal Leonid A. Govorov's Leningrad army, fresh from its triumph over the Finns in Karelia, swept across Estonia. Its left flank drove through from the southern end of Lake Peipus. Its right flank drove through the lake-studded swamps bordering the Gulf of Finland. At a mile-an-hour clip, this force rolled into Tallinn, last but one of the occupied capitals (according to Soviet reckoning) of the Soviet republics...
Smart, swift, hard-hitting Russian diplomacy had done it again. One week after Rumania, Finland was out of the war.† In Moscow the Finnish armistice terms were signed by Foreign Minister Enckell for Finland and for Russia by Andrei Zhdanov, president of the Leningrad Soviet and Joseph Stalin's heir apparent...
...Russians' drive to the old borders of Poland peters out, their drive on Leningrad begins...
...Leningrad drive pushes through to Estonia, the Russians break across the Dnieper...
...last the Finnish nation had learned tragically what Leon Trotsky meant when he said: "The Finnish General Staff should stop measuring the distance from Helsinki to Leningrad, because the distance from Leningrad to Helsinki will always be shorter...