2.+Leningrad

  ** · **   On September 8, 1941 the Germans had completely surrounded Leningrad and they began to cut off resources from entering the city.   ·   The siege lasted for 900 days, until January 27 1944 . Almost 3 million civilians (about 400,000 children) refused to surrender.  ·   Food and fuel in the winter of 1941-42 there was no heating, no water supply, almost no electricity.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> In January and February of 1942, 200,000 people died in Leningrad of cold and starvation. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">

<span style="color: #000aff; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">· <span style="color: #000aff; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Road of Life is where several hundred thousand <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial;">people were evacuated<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> from the city and moved across Lake Ladoga. It connected the city to the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; msobidifontfamily: Arialmsobidifontfamily;">mainland. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> One positive of the Russian winter was that it froze Lake Ladoga which created a life-line over which caravans of trucks hauled food and supplies to the city. · <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Also it provided an evacuation route for thousands of the city's weakest and elderly people.<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol;">

· <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Most of them were buried in mass graves in different cemeteries, the majority were buried in the Piskariovskoye Memorial Cemetery. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Cannibalism began to appear all around Leningrad, Thousands died, an estimated 11,000 in November and increasing to 53,000 in December. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">

·<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> The frozen earth meant their bodies could not be buried. · <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Corpses accumulated in the city's streets, parks and other open areas.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**·<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> The Siege was broken in January 1943. A year later, on January 27 1944 it was fully lifted. At least 641,000 people had died in Leningrad during the Siege.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">