The Unknown War - The Siege of Leningrad - 01/05
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:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=46C36E7EC5FC8324
Unknown War, The (Neizvestnaya Voyna)
Episode 1 of 20
http://www.memocast.com/media
.aspx?id=343417
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
The Saint War
http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/download.php?fname=saintwar
Soviet songs -
http://www.sovmusic.ru/
http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/index.php
...