I'm sure you're correct in thinking that they had Claudia refer to Stalingrad because that's the single Russian battle that everyone in the West (except for Paige!) has heard of. Bringing up the Battle of Leningrad would have opened up a whole different aspect of the war: civilians were reduced to eating sawdust bread and wallpaper paste and they died in masses of starvation. There were reports of cannibalism and murders for food, though how widespread that was, I don't know. In those circumstances, I could easily believe that Claudia would trade sex for food. I believe that some of the leadership was purged and executed after the war because of their sheer ineptitude.
Now you have me intensely curious to go back and look at the photo that Claudia showed Paige to see if it was one of the landmark battle sites.
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Re: Great Patriotic War
Date: 2018-04-29 07:02 pm (UTC)Now you have me intensely curious to go back and look at the photo that Claudia showed Paige to see if it was one of the landmark battle sites.