The Unknown War - The Siege of Leningrad - 01/05 Documentary series about 1941-45 The Great Patriotic War. Made in 1970's. Narrated by Burt Lancaster. Youtube Play-list: www.youtube.com Unknown War, The (Neizvestnaya Voyna) Episode 1 of 20 www.memocast.com 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. en.wikipedia.org "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." AA 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 ... Теги:TheUnknownWarSiegeofLeningrad
