900 Days of Starvation & Horror - Mostly Unknown Story in the West. Part 1.

LENINGRADS HORRIFIC SIEGE WAS THE MOST LETHAL IN WORLD HISTORY. ///
Russia's northern capital, St. Petersburg, is marking 66 years since the breaking of the Nazi blockade. Formerly known as Leningrad, the city lived through 900 days of starvation and horror, but most people in the West never heard of this. Silencing this most horrific part of modern history makes it easier for the western governments to sell new wars (for example: NATO's 78-day bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, proxy-war against South Ossetia, etc) to their obedient public and promotes the growth of Nazi movements in the new EU states, Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe. Russians understand the pain of the wars that came from the West - Mass grave in St. Petersburg holding up to 800,000 dead is a reminder of the Nazi siege of Leningrad.
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The outbreak of the Second World War found the Soviet Union unprepared for the conflict ahead. Having signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939, Hitlers invasion of June 1941 caught the USSR by surprise. By the end of the year, the Germans had seized most of the Soviet Unions western territory and surrounded Leningrad. Leningrad was a major objective of Hitler because of its economic, military and symbolic significance.
 
LENINGRADS HORRIFIC SIEGE WAS THE MOST LETHAL IN WORLD HISTORY. It lasted for 900 days, from September 1941 to January 1944. The citys civilian population of almost three million refused to surrender, even though they were completely surrounded. By the first winter of the siege there was no heating, no water supply, almost no electricity and very little food. Despite non-stop air and artillery bombardment, the citys greatest enemies were hunger and bitter cold. Exhausted people collapsed and died. The streets were littered with dead bodies. The only life-line to the mainland was the ice of Lake Ladoga known as the Road of Life.

Somehow, the city survived, its heroic resistance summed up in the motto: Troy fell, Rome fell, Leningrad did not fall. The blockade took the lives of at least 800,000 people, although some estimates suggest that as many as 1.5 million people died. The city became the symbol of Soviet resilience and invincibility. The siege was commemorated by the Green Belt of Glory, a unique complex of memorials along the historic frontline. You can still see warnings in St. Petersburg advising which side of the street is safe from the German shelling.




Slowly, the industrialisation of the 1930s, driven by the USSRs vast resources and workforce, started paying off. The tide turned in February 1943, when the Germans suffered a devastating defeat in the battle of Stalingrad. One of the most brutal standoffs in human history, it had begun the previous year, in the summer of 1942.
A major industrial centre on the Volga River in southern Russia, Stalingrad (now Volgograd), was a coveted prize in itself. Control over it opened the way to the vital Caucasus oil fields. The citys very name drove Hitlers obsession with it.
The horror of Stalingrad lasted for 199 days, costing an estimated 1.5 million lives from both sides. The besieged city quickly turned into a meat grinder. The Soviet losses were so great that, at times, the life expectancy of a newly arrived soldier was less than a day. Battles raged for every street, house, basement and staircase. Areas captured by the Wehrmacht troops by day, were re-taken by the Soviet army at night. The Germans dubbed this type of war Rattenkrieg rat war, bitterly joking about seizing the kitchen but still fighting for the living-room.

One building that the Germans failed to take was the so-called Pavlovs House. In September 1942, a Soviet platoon led by Yakov Pavlov turned an apartment block in the city centre into an impenetrable fortress. Penned in and surrounded by Nazis, a little more than a dozen men rebuffed assault after assault. They held out for two months, until they were relieved by counter-attacking Soviet forces. See more - part 2

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[UnoRaza]

Great time to install the so-called "food protection" bill/RACKET and put American farmers at a disadvantage to their FOREIGN "competition"?!

Farmers can be harassed/fined/arrested without even "credible evidence"; this corruption tactic using SHILL children was used by the Jewish Communists ag gentiles and Nazis ag political dissidents and Jews.

"Control the food and you control the people", and most true Americans WILL not allow the LATEST world takeover attempt; WELL TAUGHT NOT to.