The cruelty of World War II is well known, and the Soviet-German battlefield is definitely the most tragic battlefield in World War II, and there were many tragic and tragic battles in the 4-year Soviet-German War, taking tens of thousands of lives. Among them, the Defense of Leningrad is the siege war with the largest number of deaths and the longest siege, this battle lasted more than 900 days, leningrad millions of citizens died, the most painful thing is that 630,000 of them were starved to death!
In Hitler's early plans for the invasion of the Soviet Union, Leningrad was even more important than the Donetsk Plain and Moscow, Leningrad was not only the second largest city in the Soviet Union, the largest industrial center and the second largest transportation hub in the Soviet Union, but also considered by the Soviets to be the birthplace of Bolshevism, and the city had an irreplaceable significance in the hearts of the Soviets. On September 8, 1941, the German army completed the siege of Leningrad, and more than 3 million soldiers and civilians in the city were "completely" isolated, which was the beginning of the "nightmare", until the end of January 27, 1944, during the siege, the people of Leningrad not only worried about the German bombing, but also worried about food.
As early as the siege of Leningrad, the city's grain has been in a hurry, meat and grain support for up to a month, there is no way to Leningrad can only implement the minimum standard of rations for citizens, workers and engineers and technicians 250 grams per day, adults and young children without work 125 grams per day, in less than 2 months, a large number of citizens began to show symptoms of malnutrition, and then more and more painful, the city can eat everything has been consumed, every day people are starved to death, frozen to death. Between November 1941 and December 1942, 630,000 people in Leningrad were starved to death and froze to death, and the corpses in the city piled up, shocking! In order to prevent extreme incidents, the Leningrad police set up a special unit to conduct patrols.
Even with limited conditions, the workers of Leningrad did not stop their work, tightened their trouser belts and kept producing many weapons and equipment for the front-line troops, and on January 27, 1944, the siege that lasted for more than 900 days finally ended. During the more than 900 days and nights of the siege, under the condition of lack of food, the leningrad soldiers and civilians overcame all these difficulties to unite and unite to defend the city to the death, preferring to die rather than surrender to fascism.