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Meat Bor (55 photos)
A little history lesson. Nerve please retire.
- Meat Bor - as if on someone's irony, was named a small town in the Novgorod region, which fate has prepared a terrible role - to become bloody meat grinder, peremolovshey in 1942 during Operation Luban many tens of thousands of lives and destinies of Soviet soldiers 2 th Shock Army of the Volkhov Front.
Winter 42nd 2nd Shock Army attempted to break through to the besieged Leningrad. The Germans pulled powerful army reinforcements and sank into the boiler. Narrow passage through which theoretically could get out of the environment, shooting through. Later it was called "Valley of Death". Environment of the army went out until July - six months. Six months without food, ammunition and medical supplies. Army Commander General Vlasov surrendered.
These pictures were taken by German photojournalists
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- Meat Bor - as if on someone's irony, was named a small town in the Novgorod region, which fate has prepared a terrible role - to become bloody meat grinder, peremolovshey in 1942 during Operation Luban many tens of thousands of lives and destinies of Soviet soldiers 2 th Shock Army of the Volkhov Front.
Winter 42nd 2nd Shock Army attempted to break through to the besieged Leningrad. The Germans pulled powerful army reinforcements and sank into the boiler. Narrow passage through which theoretically could get out of the environment, shooting through. Later it was called "Valley of Death". Environment of the army went out until July - six months. Six months without food, ammunition and medical supplies. Army Commander General Vlasov surrendered.
These pictures were taken by German photojournalists
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