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The 900 Days of Leningrad's siege saw the greatest destruction in modern history, and the larges loss of life in a modern city. It dwarfed urban campaigns elsewhere in the Second World War by a factor of magnitude.
This episode links this immense struggle with the rest of the war in the East.
Map 1: Finnish and Soviet forces on the eve of Barbarossa, 1941
Map 2: Finnish offensive operations in Karelia, summer and autumn, 1941
Map 3: The siege of Leningrad
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The 900 Days of Leningrad's siege saw the greatest destruction in modern history, and the larges loss of life in a modern city. It dwarfed urban campaigns elsewhere in the Second World War by a factor of magnitude.
This episode links this immense struggle with the rest of the war in the East.
Map 1: Finnish and Soviet forces on the eve of Barbarossa, 1941
Map 2: Finnish offensive operations in Karelia, summer and autumn, 1941
Map 3: The siege of Leningrad
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