The lifting of the blockade of Leningrad in 1944 was a great holiday for the entire population of the Soviet Union. The cordon of the city continued for 871 days. How many people died in it? How many lives has the war taken? Nobody can answer these questions for sure. One thing is clear: war has no place in the world.
The lifting of the blockade of Leningrad, to which the Soviet troops went for a long time, was an expected event. No one suspected that once the capital of Russia would be in strong isolation from civilization, that there would be nothing to eat in this city, that even domestic animals would have to eat. Probably, the five-year-old girl Tanya Savicheva, whose diaries show the horror of the war, became the symbol of the besieged city.
How many days did the siege of Leningrad last? This now 871 days seems to us only two and a half years. And for them, for the besieged Leningraders, a whole life has passed during these days. The blockade of Leningrad was lifted on January 27, 1944. This day is celebrated in the city as the second birthday.
Initially, the plans of the German troops were to destroy Leningrad with shelling. But after the failure of the planlightning war, after the brave exploits of Soviet soldiers, the Germans realized that it would not be easy to capture Russia.
Already at the beginning of September of the first year of World War II, the city was cordoned off from the land. Surrounded by more than 2.5 million people. Despite the lockdown, residents continued to fight for their homeland. But the ring is still closed. How long did the siege of Leningrad last? Seems like an eternity. It is not clear what would have happened to the city if it were not for the "road of life". How would people live? What they were doing? And would this blockade be lifted at all? But people lived, they continued to believe. Under such conditions, the recognized geniuses of Russian culture continued to create, among them Dmitri Shostakovich. His Leningrad Symphony helped people wake up from a kind of hibernation, it instilled hope and faith in them. She became a symbol of the city and that time. This is an indicator of the courage and heroism of the Soviet people.
The diaries of people who lived during the blockade of the city create terrible and terrible pictures: corpses lay on the corners of the streets, there was a terrible cold and hunger, people died one after another, there was no warm clothes and food.
Already in mid-January, on the 18th of 1943, the blockade of Leningrad was broken by Soviet troops, but still the city was cordoned off for a whole year. All this time, the "road of life" was operating, passing through Lake Ladoga. Finally, a year later, on January 27, the ring opened and the city was liberated.
The lifting of the blockade of Leningrad marked the beginning of the final stage in the Second World Bloody War. Soviettroops liberated more and more cities. But the main goal remained besieged Leningrad. It's scary to think, but during these almost 900 days, about 900 thousand people died in the city, most of them children.
Modern politicians should do everything possible to ensure that such global mistakes never happen again. In the context of the development of nuclear weapons, cities will not be blocked, but completely destroyed. And that is why it is forbidden to repeat the mistakes of the recent past.
