glaz-almaz: “In January 1943, the Red Army finally cleared a narrow land corridor out through
glaz-almaz: “In January 1943, the Red Army finally cleared a narrow land corridor out through the German lines. But the siege was not fully lifted until January 1944, when the German armies began their slow general retreat. ‘We brought out vodka,’ a teacher wrote of the victory fireworks. ‘We sang, cried and laughed. But it was sad all the same – the losses were just too big. A great work had ended, impossible deeds had been done, we all felt that … But we also felt confusion. How should we live now?’” -- source link
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