Word: leningrader
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Russia. Between the Pripet Marshes and Leningrad, the Red Army smashed into the enemy in a new offensive, moved 19 miles on a 50-mile front in five days. At Kherson, 640 miles to the south, it drove the enemy from his bridgehead on the Dnieper's south bank. Question for Germans: Where would the big blow fall...
...Dnieper bulge, great tank battles flared up and died down of sheer exhaustion. In the windswept plain west of Kiev, in the woods north of the frozen Pripet Marshes, the front stirred, thundered, quieted. Fearfully, Germans spoke of Russian troops massed thickly along the 300-mile front south of Leningrad...
...Battle of Russia moves in three great waves of action: the first seven months of invasion; the siege of Leningrad; the Stalingrad campaign. There are serious weaknesses: figure-skating around the Russian Revolution and the German-Soviet Pact which Sonja Henie could envy; blurring into romancing (as in some specious shots of gibbeted civilians); surprising failures to make the most of great material (Leningrad's fortitude is reinforced by only a hint of Leningrad's semistarvation). But overall and in most of its detail the film has remarkable power. Its power results from a simple fact: the greatest...
...Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, told of a new Russian antiserum that has given the best results yet in preventing influenza. Soviet scientists have found ways to extract iodine cheaply from the foul waters of oilfields, sugar from watermelons, vitamin C from pine-tree needles for hungry Leningrad. Important contributions have been made to molecular physics, optics, electronics...
White Russia, Leningrad and Kalinin regions from the enemy; when we will liberate . . . the people of the Crimea and Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia and Karelo-Finm'sh Republic [i.e., the parts of Finland ceded to Russia...