Word: leningrader
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...Lionhearted Leningrad, city of the Revolution. London is with you. . . . London salutes the heroes of Leningrad. . . . Victory is yours. Long live Leningrad...
Admitting that "hunger and internal confusion as aids in breaking the Russian resistance" were unpredictable elements, the Germans undertook a heavy and lengthy bombardment of the city. All day long-range Nazi cannon, skulking in ash-colored Karelian soil, cracked high explosives into Leningrad's defenses. All night the Eighth Air Corps and the ugly "black beetles" of the Luftwaffe's smart Richthofen Squadron dealt out destruction, until the night glowed red with fire and death...
Besieged in Leningrad, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, establishing active defense positions far forward of the main line, made good use of a low semicircle of heights 15 miles to the south of the city. "Still shooting from all barrels," as Nazi correspondents admitted, Marshall Voroshilov's defenders repeatedly counterattacked. He announced that his forces had beaten off a minor German sea raid on the Kronstadt naval base, and claimed the capture of three villages, destruction of over 200 German tanks, 10,000 soldiers, on the outskirts of the defense line...
...Within Leningrad the population became, according to Izvestia, "a wall of steel and concrete barring the enemy at the entrance." Listening to the radio, the defenders heard a broadcast from London's conservative...
That the Red charge was a lot less ambitious was suggested by the fact that the Russians did not at once report the capture of many prisoners. But the Germans were forced to retire. If they retired much farther the Russians might recapture the most direct railway line from Leningrad to Odessa, might thus prevent Adolf Hitler from establishing valuable north-south communications east of the Pripet Marshes...