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The frontline outside Leningrad
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The frontline outside Leningrad

8th January 1942: Both sides settle down to trench warfare and struggle in the cold

Jan 8
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Siege of Leningrad: Soviet civilians in the Russian city of Leningrad walk on Zagorodny Prospekt during a severe frost of -30 degrees Celsius. January 1942.

Inside the besieged city of Leningrad the death toll was still mounting. Cold and starvation were weakening people to the point where they began to give up. Whole families lay in their beds fully cl…

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