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?p=F7824A4F56B5F86E 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_Leningrad "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/history/siege.asp Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_operations_of_the_Red_Army_in_World_War_II 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?p=FF5E5E968E8E9A20 Battlefield - The Battle for Russia: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=716D54E224552220 Battlefield - Siege of Leningrad: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4E9BA7D4BD005109 Stalingrad 1942-1943: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8416F00B87C7C672 Battlefield Stalingrad + Death at Stalingrad: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6F6BCCA689B639B7 Summer-Autumn Campaign 1943 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7C930FD9ADA6D3E6 Osvobozhdenie, Befreiung, Liberation - From Kursk to Berlin: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FECF4D8DD0620DC7 The Road To Berlin - 1942-1945: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3057BE3D01B2ADBC The Battle for Berlin 1945: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B3AC675FE22FFD33 Victory Day in Europe 1945, 8/9 May: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5D86B15045F4449D Pobediteli Soldiers of the Great War: http://english.pobediteli.ru/ http://english.pobediteli.ru/flash.html?DR=1 THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN PHOTOS: http://www.vor.ru/55/Photo_Exhibition/Pic_eng.html MIA: History: Soviet History: Great Patriotic War: http://marxists.catbull.com/history//ussr/great-patriotic-war/index.htm Allegretto - invasion theme - Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) - Bernstein Conducts: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=695BACE28A78ECC0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._7_(Shostakovich) Defenders of Leningrad: http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/download.php?fname=leningrd ...