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Leningrad
Former name for the city of St Petersburg.
On January 26, 1924, five days after Lenin's death, Petrograd was renamed Leningrad. Later some streets and other toponyms were renamed accordingly. ...more
On January 26, 1924, five days after Lenin's death, Petrograd was renamed Leningrad. Later some streets and other toponyms were renamed accordingly. ...more
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And so the Red Army, squeezed between two of the most brutal dictators in human history, fought on.
- Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
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Gradually, like the emigration of an insidious, phantom population, Leningrad belonged more to the dead than to the living. The dead watched over streets and sat in snow-swamped buses. Whole apartment buildings were tenanted by them, where in broken rooms, dead families sat waiting at tables. Their dominion spread room by room, like lights going out in evening.
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― Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
― Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
