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    leningrad


    1. The siege of Leningrad lasted 900 days and caused 1


    2. Two of one hundred and fifty members of the Leningrad 17th Party Congress


    3. "Who knows? Something happened at the railway station in Leningrad


    4. "The palace-museums at Leningrad are full of such precious artefacts


    5. a conflict includes the siege of Leningrad, and the Ukrainian


    6. In both Leningrad and the Ukraine, as famine set in, even


    7. Nancy then gave her troops one hour to rest a bit and eat before the fleet headed towards Copenhagen, destroying the Gestapo and SD offices there before making stops in Riga, the capital of the now annexed state of Latvia, and Leningrad, in the Soviet Union


    8. The stop over Leningrad was different from the previous ones, though


    9. The inhabitants of Leningrad ate all of the 'normal food


    10. Colonel Ivan Zorokin, head of the NKVD20 in Leningrad, couldn’t help look again outside through a window as he walked towards the office of Colonel-General Dimitri Chernikov, the commander of Leningrad’s garrison

    11. The morale inside the besieged city was now rising steadily, along with the popularity of the Time Patrol, even though none of the citizens or soldiers of Leningrad had seen yet a single living Time Patrol member


    12. The reason given for such an apparently mindless order was that the Time Patrol was not to be allowed to ‘subvert’ the people of Leningrad through deliveries of food


    13. It also stated that the ‘bourgeois spirit’ of Leningrad had to be broken in order to ensure party domination over the citizens of the city


    14. One example of Zorokin’s style of leadership was the fact that the NKVD troops in Leningrad now fought side by side with Red Army soldiers, instead of standing in their back, ready to shoot them if they faltered


    15. “Look, I received yesterday an order from Moscow telling me to destroy the food supplies you are bringing to Leningrad and to pretext that they are poisoned by you


    16. Groth stared at Zorokin as the machine flew towards the giant spaceship that had brought it to Leningrad


    17. “Hungry, mostly, but less than most people in Leningrad


    18. It is one thing that grates me to no small degree when I see the starvation and misery around Leningrad these days


    19. When you return to Leningrad, you may give this piece of news to General Chernikov: two days ago, I served an ultimatum to the High German Command to either start withdrawing on all fronts back into Germany by noon of this Saturday or face total destruction


    20. “That order was nothing less than an act of treason against the brave people of Leningrad, who have been enduring hell for a year while resisting the German invaders

    21. At this time armoured units of Army Group North reached the outskirts of Leningrad


    22. Hitler ordered them to stop; Leningrad was to be starved into submission


    23. Next, he ordered Manstein's Eleventh Army to the north in preparation for an assault on Leningrad


    24. The Battle of Berlin undoubtedly ranks along with Leningrad, Stalingrad, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki as an example of the horror and destruction accomplished by modern warfare


    25. Using rockets and artillery, the Russians evened the scores for Leningrad and Stalingrad


    26. Within months the Germans had destroyed most of the Russian Army, taken more than a million prisoners, and Moscow and Leningrad were threatened with emminent capture


    27. Germans ran out of time and found themselves trapped in a bitter Russian winter that brutalized both the Russians in the beseiged cities of Leningrad and Moscow and the isolated German


    28. The Soviets announced this morning through a public communiqué that they will soon hold some joint military exercises in Ukraine, Belorussia and in the Leningrad area


    29. “But the Leningrad institute is one of the leading in


    30. This means that for these months Leningrad and others will be without light!”

    31. in the Leningrad codex example)


    32. As a boy in Leningrad I had scaled many such fences


    33. Elder was born in Leningrad and grew up in Estonia, where he entered medical school at the age of 16


    34. The Germans had hoped to reach Moscow and Leningrad before the Russian winter set in, but didn’t make it


    35. They cut Leningrad off and tried to starve it into surrender


    36. The people of Leningrad were reduced to eating paste from their wallpaper


    37. In 1953 he ‘discovered’ a ‘plot’ by a group of doctors to kill the head of the Leningrad Communist Party, Andrei Zhdanov


    38. ‘Good,’ thought Stalin, who hated the city, ‘now I can shoot lots of people in Leningrad for helping the Doctors’ Plot


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    Synonyms for "leningrad"

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    "leningrad" definitions

    a city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former capital of Russia