the french marshal ferdinand forsch turned out to be right, calling the results of the paris conferencee for 20 years. january 1943 the red army broke the blockade of leningrad. this happened during operation iskra. this name was suggested by stalin. it was necessary to eliminate the shliselburg-senyavinsky bulge with attacks from the leningrad and volkhov fronts, commanded by marshals leonid govarov and kirill meretskov. the nazis created a deep and chaotic defense. they had to advance through swampy areas, and the leningraders still had to cross the neva with its high banks. that's why. our troops trained in the rear, they practiced everything until it was automatic. details of the assault and crossing so that light tanks could pass on the ice. they launched an attack on the morning of the twelfth, 6 days later parts of the fronts united south of the workers' village, liberated shliselburg and cleared the entire southern coast of lake ladazh of germans. this became a radical turning point in the battle for leningrad. now it was connected to the mainland by a corridor 8-11 km wide. but