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The History of WWII Podcast

Episode 158- Leningrad Under Siege

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The people of Leningrad take an affront to Nazi Germany invading their country. The men volunteer in droves for military service, the women are sent off to dig trenches. Though many of the men will die that summer of 1941, the Soviet Red Banner Baltic Fleet will undergo its own "Dunkirk" as a fleet of 228 vessels flee from Tallinn, Estonia, facing shore batteries, Finnish torpedo boats and miles of mines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, and thank you for listening to the History of World War II podcast, Episode

0:44.9

158, Leningrad, Under Siege.

0:49.1

When we last left the detailed telling of the civilian populace of Leningrad, Zhukov had

0:54.9

just saved the city with a series of counterattacks.

0:59.2

Stalin, the non-military man, was hoping for much more out of it than Zhukov.

1:04.3

Still, the Germans were beaten back, unable to take Volkov just below Lake Ladoga, unable

1:11.2

to get past Teppkin, nor link up with the reluctant thins on the south-eastern corner

1:17.4

of the lake.

1:18.7

By then, the calendar showed October, and the weather was changing.

1:24.8

So by then, the Germans controlled two narrow land corridors, one just west of Leningrad

1:31.4

as the Soviets still held Iranian bomb to the corridors left, along the coast.

1:37.4

The other was just below Leningrad, which touched the large lake.

1:43.0

Throughout October, Stalin pitted his will against Hitler's, as both men directed their

1:48.2

generals to take or retake, as it were, the area to the east of the city, but just west

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