Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad

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the soviets had a lovely tradition of naming whole cities "hero cities" because of a town's resistance to the nazis. leningrad, for instance, was a hero city for withstanding the great siege.

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On 16 September 1943, Soviet troops liberated Bryansk. The main forces of the partisan detachments joined the Red Army and continued to participate in combat operations.

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