Great Patriotic ... No, it's not just a factthe stories are part of us, it is us. Every citizen of the post-Soviet space, regardless of age and gender, nationality and religion, understands what “that war” is, and we have no right to forget it.
One of the central and most terrible events of the Second World Warshould be considered the blockade of Leningrad, now the great and flourishing of St. Petersburg. 900 (or rather, 871) days and exactly the same number of nights — such is the duration of the blockade of Leningrad, briefly about which can be said in one phrase: the great grief of the people. The day of lifting the blockade of Leningrad today is officially considered the day of military glory.
Terrifying statistics: more than 700 thousand.people died in those terrible years, 650 thousand of them died of starvation. And only with a small 3% were victims of bombing and shelling. But the worst thing was that the children died, but the children were left completely alone and had to (if the age and age allowed it) to bury the adults somehow ...
Кровавая осада началась 8 сентября 1941 года.The history of this tragedy, however, dates back much earlier, from the fateful 41st summer, when German troops began shelling and bombing the city, and also cut the railways - the thread that connected Leningrad with the whole country. According to the plan of "Barbarossa", Leningrad, all its inhabitants, as well as the soldiers who defended it, must be completely destroyed. The plan failed, the Reichstag troops failed to break through. Then it was decided to take the unruly hail with starvation. The only salvation was Lake Ladoga, on the ice crust of which, on November 22, 1941, the famous “Road of Life” was created. On it, under the endless cannonade of fascist guns, cars with food were moving there and there, and with the evacuees of the inhabitants, back. The lake has saved the lives of almost 1.5 million people. But how far was still the day of lifting the blockade of the city of Leningrad ...
The enemy ring made it possible to break through 18January 1943, Operation Iskra ended with the restoration of the supply of the city. But only a year later, on January 27, 1944, he came, probably the most memorable day for today's Petersburgers - the day of the lifting of the blockade of Leningrad. The operation called "The January Thunder" threw the enemy many kilometers from the border of the city.
The history of the siege of Leningrad would not have been complete withoutdescriptions of the feat and endurance of the common people, ordinary Leningraders No wonder the great Kazakh poet Dzhambul Dzhabaev wrote in excitement: “Leningraders, my children! Leningraders, my pride! ” Indeed, the pride, the pride of the whole country ...
During the siege, the release did not stop for a daymilitary products in factories. Everybody worked - men, women, old people, teenagers, children - in a state of fainting from hunger. Do not become a hindrance and constant bombing of the Kirov factory. If in September-October an air-raid warning, during which everyone left workplaces and hid in shelters, was declared with any number of enemy aircraft, then it was soon decided not to leave work during a raid of 1-2 aviators. Motherland needed weapons, everyone understood that perfectly ...
Until that moment, until the day comeslifting the blockade of Leningrad, did not stand aside and his cultural elite. Theaters, libraries, museums made it possible for Leningraders to feel at least a little that they were living. New plays were staged on the stage, radio was broadcasting, according to which residents not only learned the latest news, but also received support from writers, poets, and announcers. It would hardly have survived the city without all this ...
This date, the day of the lifting of the blockade of Leningrad, we will never forget. It is simply impossible to forget!
