Word: leningrader
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Such stories, and others better substantiated, led headquarters of the Leningrad Military Area, which in general has not lied about the war except to say that nothing was happening, to issue a blistering self-righteous attack on the foreign press ("especially the French and primarily the Havas Agency") for its accounts of Finnish successes. Its points...
...Karelian Isthmus last week General Grigory Stern's fresh Russian troops dug themselves into trenches, while northward from Leningrad streamed more fresh soldiers and supplies. The Russians tried again to flank the Mannerheim Line, were slaughtered at Tolvaj...
Last week the wily Finns thought up a new scheme to get much-needed war materials. Behind the Russian front and over Leningrad their aviators scattered leaflets offering deserting Russian soldiers specific prices for their arms: 100 rubles for a pistol, 150 rubles for a rifle, 1,000 to 1,500 for a machine gun, 10,000 for a tank. The Russians were even told how to surrender...
...Finnish Air Force bombed Liinahamari, Finnish port for Petsamo and now Russia's chief Arctic supply base. (There were unconfirmed and probably untrue reports that these planes had come from a British carrier in the Arctic Ocean.) One of the many Finnish ski patrols trying to cut the Leningrad-Murmansk railway made its way back to Finland after a nine-day trip and reported it had dynamited the railroad...
...Finnish planes dropped propaganda pamphlets on Leningrad, in which Russian prisoners' tales of woe in the Soviet army were retold for the folks at home...