Word: leningraders
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...best of Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov's northern defenders were locked in Leningrad...
...easily done with? What would the German soldiers say who had yet to shed blood to accomplish this supposedly accomplished fact? What of Leningrad? What of Odessa? What of Marshal Budenny's remnants, who would certainly not ask to be captured? What of the thousands of untamed miles and millions of untamed men beyond Moscow? What of the wall of the Urals? What of the Russian Armies beyond the wall...
Scheme for Schisms. Hitler struck first and squarely at the center. He achieved victories great enough to force the Russians to withdraw part of their strength from the two flanks. He then drove a wedge northeastward, which cut off Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov and his forces in Leningrad. That accomplished the split between north and center...
Leon Trotsky wrote these words about the defense of Leningrad in October 1919, when the Whites were pressing the Seventh Red Army northward into the city. But the words echoed like a great roar in the labyrinth last week...
...looked as if the Germans, unless they waited for the city to be starved out, would be unable to crack Leningrad without a major offensive. At this stage of the Battle of Russia they seem unable to mount more than one offensive at a time. This week's was not aimed at Leningrad...