Word: viipuri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murmansk. 4. Viipuri...
Heimo Haitto was born in Viipuri (since last month Viborg, Russia), began fiddling at four. When he was nine his parents put him in the Viipuri Conservatory, later let him be adopted by the Conservatory's founder, Boris Sirpo. Last year Heimo made his debut with the Helsinki Philharmonic, Professor Sirpo conducting. In London, as the youngest entrant in an international competition of the British Council of Music, he won hands down...
Soon Finland was at war. Back in Viipuri, Violinist Haitto was walking to school one day when he heard an air-raid alarm. He rushed home, grabbed what he thought was his Guarnerius, headed for shelter. When the raid was over, the Sirpo home and the Conservatory were wrecked, and Heimo Haitto discovered that, in his excitement, he had saved a cheap violin. The Sirpos and their foster child headed for Sweden and Norway, where Heimo fiddled at benefit concerts for the Finnish Red Cross. Then they sailed for the U. S., where they arrived last February...
...stood firm under fresh concatenations of heavy Red artillery, replying with their own shells to break up the enemy's attempts to advance. At the Mannerheim Line's right centre, north of its gaping break-through at Summa, the Red juggernaut inched forward. In the suburbs of Viipuri, out on the ice and islands of the bay, and southwest along the coast where the Reds had won a few footholds, fighting raged as the 105th morning wore on. The Russians claimed that now Viipuri. where the first shots for Finnish independence were fired in 1918, was in Russian...
...Final maneuver in the cracking of Finland's defense was a simple one for any commander with superior numbers of troops: extension of the front. When the Russian generals finally won their opening they deployed their forces westward over the ice in front of Viipuri. By repeated attacks, now here, now there, along the coast line, they finally obtained footholds which the Finns, strung out in small groups, could not dislodge. These grips were points at which strength could soon have been built up to encircle Viipuri, and to start a drive on Helsinki. But again, this maneuver could...