Source: Good News Network
75 years ago today, the siege of Leningrad in Russia was ended after 872 days; the stranglehold by the German blockade during World War II was broken allowing food and fuel to reach the city now called St. Petersburg.
After the last road to the city was severed in 1941, the largest loss of life ever known in a modern city followed, with water, energy and food shortages resulting in the deaths of up to 1.
5 million soldiers and civilians—and the evacuation of 1.4 million women and children. (1944)
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