The ice road that saved Leningrad
26th February 1942: The 'Road of Life' is now fully operational and the Soviet authorities begin to celebrate it.
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Leningrad had been cut off and under siege since September 1941. Starvation gripped the city with over a million civilians dying over the course …
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