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Word: leningraders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-day battle in which they reported that two Russian regiments were "almost entirely destroyed." The Finnish communique added that "our troops are following the retreating enemy," and unofficial reports had it that they had chased Stalin's cannon fodder back into Russia and were striking toward the Leningrad-Murmansk railway, Russia's main supply line to its whole northern front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Soldiers, Arise! | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...overwhelming superiority was slowly being balanced. Italy sent 80 Savoia-Marchettis to Finland and Britain sent 30 Bristol Blenheims. If the sub-zero temperatures and the shortage of daylight did not cripple their effectiveness, the Finns had a good target in Russia's two main supply lines, the Leningrad-Murmansk Railway and the Baltic-White Sea Canal. Aggressive and continuous air attack on the rail line would leave Russia's raiding columns marooned in the wastes of north Finland. By week's end the Finns had taken to the air and were reported to have bombed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Such Nastiness | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Finns, carrying the war to Russian soil as the conflict enters its third week, were reported without confirmation to be striking toward Russia's vital Leningrad-Murmansk railroad, lying 55 or 60 miles across the eastern frontier...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...more tenable belief was that Andrei Zhdanov, press & propaganda chief, Heir-Apparent to the Stalin throne and political leader of the Leningrad district, was hipped on the subject of the defense of the Soviet Union's second largest city and managed to get Dictator Stalin alarmed too. In any case, whatever the causes or reasons, the U.S.S.R.'s grotesque impersonation of a bear being bitten by, a rabbit did the U.S.S.R.'s waning prestige and corroding ideals no worldwide good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Rabbit Bites Bear | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

After these pro-Russian sentiments had appeared in print last week, Bill Spofford was irritated by the invasion of Finland. To protect Leningrad, Russia needed Baltic bases, and Finland might have handed them over quietly. Whether the C. L. I. D. (some 3,000 members) would take the same line when it meets in January, he did not know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rev. Reds | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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