002 1945-2010 Siege of Leningrad

Siege of Leningrad - MAY 9, 2010 - the Great Patriotic War The 65th Victory Day celebrations. http://www.may9.ru/en/ Youtube Play-list: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... Воин Красной Армии - Спаси! Red Army Warrior - Save (us)! The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade (Russian: блокада Ленинграда, transliteration: blokada Leningrada) was a prolonged military operation by the German Army Group North and the Finnish Defence Forces to capture Leningrad in the Eastern Front theatre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of... "The moment has come to put your Bolshevik qualities to work, to get ready to defend Leningrad without wasting words. We have to see that nobody is just an onlooker, and carry out in the least possible time the same kind of mobilisation of the workers that was done in 1918 and 1919. The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death." A. A. Zhdanov The 900-day Siege of Leningrad: This was undoubtedly the most tragic period in the history of the city, a period full of suffering and heroism. For everyone who lives in St. Petersburg the Blokada (the Siege) of Leningrad is an important part of the city's heritage and a painful memory for the population's older generations. Less than two and a half months after the Soviet Union was attacked by Nazi Germany, German troops were already approaching Leningrad. The Red Army was outflanked and on September 8 1941 the Germans had fully encircled Leningrad and the siege began. The siege lasted for a total of 900 days, from September 8 1941 until January 27 1944. The city's almost 3 million civilians (including about 400,000 children) refused to surrender and endured rapidly increasing hardships in the encircled city. Food and fuel stocks were limited to a mere 1-2 month supply, public transport was not operational and by the winter of 1941-42 there was no heating, no water supply, almost no electricity and very little food. In January 1942 in the depths of an unusually cold winter, the city's food rations reached an all time low of only 125 grams (about 1/4 of a pound) of bread per person per day. In just two months, January and February of 1942, 200,000 people died in Leningrad of cold and starvation. Despite these tragic losses and the inhuman conditions the city's war industries still continued to work and the city did not surrender. http://www.saint-petersburg.com/histo... Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategi... Великая Отечественная война (1941 - 1945) - История, Фотографии, Плакаты, Личности, Города-герои, Кинохроника, Песни: http://bigwar.msk.ru/ The Road To Stalingrad - 1941-1942: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... Battlefield - The Battle for Russia: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... Battlefield - Siege of Leningrad: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... Stalingrad 1942-1943: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... Battlefield Stalingrad + Death at Stalingrad: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... Summer-Autumn Campaign 1943 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... Osvobozhdenie, Befreiung, Liberation - From Kursk to Berlin: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... The Road To Berlin - 1942-1945: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... The Battle for Berlin 1945: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... Victory Day in Europe 1945, 8/9 May: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... Pobediteli Soldiers of the Great War: http://english.pobediteli.ru/ http://english.pobediteli.ru/flash.ht... THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN PHOTOS: http://www.vor.ru/55/Photo_Exhibition... MIA: History: Soviet History: Great Patriotic War: http://marxists.catbull.com/history//... Allegretto - invasion theme - Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) - Bernstein Conducts: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony...) Defenders of Leningrad: http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/downlo... ...