Word: leningrader
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Most critics agree that, so far, the arts have failed to measure up to the challenge of total war. The literary arts haven't probed any deeper than the kindly sophistry of "The Moon Is Down," while music, judging from the late lamented "Leningrad" symphony, has little more to boast of. One thing is certain, however, the war can't do music much harm...
...Russians claimed that a Finnish motorized battalion was helping the Germans at Stalingrad and that "old men and cripples" were being conscripted to help the Germans storm Leningrad. In Washington Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope denied the charges, added that Finland "wants to cease fighting as soon as the threat to her existence has been averted" and her security guaranteed...
...simple life. They had samovars, rode in troikas, and were chased by wolves. A man with a very long name wrote a book about how crime does not pay. They there was Russian music, the Nutcracker Suite, 1812 Overture, and some man who wrote just recently about Leningrad burning down--he was a fireman or something. Vag realized his acquaintance with Russian life was limited, but he might as well get off to a good start. He turned down Dunster Street. The best introduction to Russian would undoubtedly be a bottle of vodka...
...major part of its vast machine-tool, precision-instrument and other industries had been moved beyond the Urals. So Leningrad, to produce its own guns and shells, had to depend on the remaining fraction of its industries...
...talisman in time of Russia's distress, Leningrad stood firm...