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'Nazis would have rubbed Leningrad out'

Published 27 Jan, 2009 09:35 | Updated 27 Jan, 2009 12:35

Stalin knew for sure that if Leningrad (now St Petersburg) had surrendered to the Nazis, it would have been obliterated, says historian Anatoly Utkin.

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