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Spanish Soldiers At Leningrad (Krasny Bor Battle)

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On the 10 February 1943, in the outskirts of Leningrad, ocurred the bloodiest encounter in which the Blue Division intervened and the last big battle in which a Spanish Army intervened in Europe: the battle of Krasny Bor, where 5.900 soldiers of the Blue Division faced a total of 4 Soviet divisions (44.000 infantry soldiers) and 2 armoured regiments with more then 100 tanks. the Spanish had almost 4000 casualties, but they managed to stop the Soviet advance, turning the Soviet offensive into a failure and causing between 11.000 and 14.000 casualties to the Red Army. Around 300 Spanish soldiers were taken prisioners by the Soviets."