Great Patriotic ... No, this is not just a fact of history, it is part of us is ourselves.Every citizen of the former Soviet Union, irrespective of age and gender, nationality and religion - understand what "is the same war," and forget it we can not.
One of the central and most terrible events of the Second World War should be regarded as the siege of Leningrad, now a great and a flowering of St. Petersburg.900 (or more precisely, 871) days, and just as many nights - this is the duration of the blockade of Leningrad, a brief which can be said in one sentence: the great grief of the people.Day siege of Leningrad today officially considered day of military glory.
horrifying statistics: more than 700 thousand. People died in those terrible years, 650 thousand. Of them died of starvation.And only a small 3% were victims of bombings and shootings.But the worst thing - the children died, the children were all alone and had (if allowed puny strength and age) somehow burying adults ...
Bloody siege began September 8, 1941.The history of this tragedy, however, dates back much earlier, in the summer of that fateful 41st, when German forces began shelling and bombing of the city, and cut the iron way - the thread that bound Leningrad with the rest of the country.According to the plan "Barbarossa", Leningrad, all of its residents, as well as defending his soldiers should be completely destroyed.The plan failed, to break through the defense forces of the Reichstag failed.Then it was decided to take the rebellious city of starvation.The only salvation was the Lake Ladoga, on the ice crust is 22 November 41 was created the famous "Road of Life."According to her, under the unending cannonade fascist guns, moving cars with food - there, and evacuated residents - back.Lake saved the lives of nearly 1.5 million people.But how far was still a day lifting of the blockade of Leningrad ...
enemy ring became possible to break through the January 18, 1943 Operation "Iskra" over the fact that the supply of the city was restored.But only a year later, on January 27, 1944 he arrived, most probably, a memorable day for St. Petersburg today - the day of the siege of Leningrad.The operation called "The January Thunder" threw the enemy for many kilometers from the border of the city.
History of the Siege of Leningrad would not be complete without a description of heroism and resistance of ordinary people, ordinary citizens of Leningrad.No wonder the great Kazakh poet Dzhambul Dzhabayev excitedly wrote: "The people of Leningrad, my children!The people of Leningrad, my pride! ".Indeed, the pride, the pride of the whole country ...
During the siege of a single day did not stop military production factories.They worked all - men, women, old people, teenagers and children - in a semiconscious state of starvation.Do not become a hindrance and constant bombing of the Kirov factory.If the September-October air raid during which all left jobs and were hiding in shelters, declared with any number of enemy aircraft, soon it was decided not to leave the job in a raid 1-2 aviators.Homeland needed a weapon, it's all well aware ...
Until that moment, until the day the siege of Leningrad, did not remain on the sidelines and cultural elite.Theaters, libraries, museums allow little Leningrad feel that they are living.On the scene were staged new plays, radio broadcasts, in which residents not only learned the latest news, but also received support from writers, poets, speakers.Hardly the city would survive without it ...
This date, the day of the siege of Leningrad, we will never forget.It is simply impossible to forget!
