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In the freezing, snow-laden streets of Leningrad, families carried dead relatives - almost mummified by brutal temperatures of minus 43C - down the stairs of darkened tenement blocks.  Some noticed just how light these corpses, ravaged by hunger, were as they loaded them on sleds and dragged them along the road like bin bags to mass collection points. Starving gravediggers did not have the strength to break the frozen winter ground and so mechanical diggers created vast gaping pits, accommodation for thousands of anonymous cadavers. Rachel Reeves wriggled on the stalling economy today as she admitted hard decisions are coming in the Spring Statement. Touring broadcast studios days before her crucial fiscal package, the Chancellor was forced to deny crushing activity by hiking taxes and talking down the countrys prospects. The extraordinary decision, exposed