Word: leningrader
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...Russians were counterattacking. To make it worse, some of the Luftwaffe on the Moscow front had been withdrawn, partly to support a drive down from Finnish positions to close the last lines of supply into Leningrad. Much Air Force weight had apparently been shifted south, in preparation for a great new effort to take Rostov...
...Russia has lost only about one-third of its pre-war industrial capacity. The principal losses have been the Leningrad area and the Ukraine. The Germans have nibbled at, and probably partly immobilized, Moscow's industry...
German aviators are pretty good at knocking out Russian airfields (see cut), not so good over cities. Said a German report of Leningrad's air-raid defense after eight weeks of siege: "It is much stronger than that German flyers have experienced over England or anywhere else since the beginning...
Finnish troops were massed before Leningrad. Finland's president, gaunt, grave Risto Ryti, reaffirmed his Government's disavowal of Nazi ideology, pledged continuance of the war against Soviet Russia. Great Britain, weighing Joseph Stalin's demand for a formal declaration of war against Finland, Rumania and Hungary, looked to the U.S. for advice...
...Around Leningrad it had come in great fogs, sleet and cold which fed on human bone-marrow. Near Moscow it came in snow and wind howling in the forests and on the plains. In the south it came in torrents of rain and in snow as wet and heavy as soaked cotton...