| | LIKE CIVIL WAR REENACTMENTS, BUT IN SNOW | | | | World War II re-enactors dressed as Soviet Red Army's (top) and Nazi Germany's (bottom) troops take part a staged battle to mark the 70th anniversary of the final raise of the Nazi blockade of the city of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, in the village of Porogki in Leningrad region, on January 26, 2014. The German and Finnish siege and blockade of Leningrad was broken on January 18, 1943 but finally lifted a year after, on January 27, 1944. The city's name was changed back from Leningrad to St. Petersburg after the 1991 Soviet collapse. Credit: OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom | | | | |
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