Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ringed with antiaircraft blimps, with artillery fire echoing and under constant threat of Luftwaffe attack, the Soviet leader evoked the glories of Russia's heroic past -- Alexander Nevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin; he also, of course, included Lenin in this pantheon. "The enemy is at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad," he said. "The war you are waging is a war of liberation, a just war." He thundered, "May you be blessed by great Lenin's victorious banner. Death to the German invaders . . . Onward to victory...
...north, Leningrad had been virtually sealed off from the rest of the country by a fierce German siege that would not be totally lifted for 880 days, until January 1944. On the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, / Leningrad's situation was even more desperate than the capital's. While the Germans outside Moscow were nearly exhausted by three unsuccessful attempts to take the city, Leningrad was not only being lashed by cannon fire and air raids but was also slowly being starved. Hitler had given orders that the city be completely eradicated after its surrender so that German...
Like Moscow, the city had been surprised by the speed of the Nazi blitzkrieg. Three weeks after the invasion, German forces were already 125 miles south of Leningrad. But where many Muscovites panicked, residents of the old imperial capital resolutely began building a network of barricades outside the city -- a million volunteers in a city of almost 3 million; many died as they labored, killed by Nazi bombs and machine-gun attacks. But in July and August they produced 340 miles of antitank ditches, 15,875 miles of open trenches, 400 miles of barbed-wire fences, 5,000 pillboxes...
...water and the box containing the "Monster," Gray's 1900-page unedited novel. Gray sits at the table in a red and blue checkered shirt with black slacks and Chinese silk long underwear which he exposes to us in his remembrance of being thrown out of a museum in Leningrad...
...metropolis that is famed as the cradle of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution is throwing off its communist legacy with a vengeance. Known for 67 years as Leningrad, Russia's second largest city last week officially became historic St. Petersburg again. The name change is largely symbolic. Statues of Lenin still loom over city parks and cast long shadows in front of train stations. The city council, mindful of budget constraints, has decided not to spend any money on new road signs or stationery. But the rechristening reflects a deeper transformation that optimists say has affected many of the city...