Word: peterhof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This pitted, tortured soil was Russia's proudest. At Ropsha Peter the Great built a magnificent palace. At Krasnoye Selo Alexander Suvorov, the 18th century hero, trained his men and shouted: "Battles are not won in offices." At Peterhof the Czars kept their priceless works of art. Now the palaces and treasures had been wrecked, looted. But Russian soil was back in Russian hands...
...almost daily; hardly a day or night was free of air raids. Destroyed early in the siege were warehouses packed with a three-year supply of food, hundreds of apartment houses, a mammoth modern library and scores of factories. Outside of Leningrad the Germans demolished the famous Palace of Peterhof, Russian symbol of the best in European...
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