On September 8, 1941, as Adolf Hitler’s forces blitzed their way into the Soviet Union during World War II, the German Army Group North laid siege to the Russian city of Leningrad (modern day St. Petersburg). The Nazis assumed the city would last mere weeks under the blockade, yet its citizens held out for nearly 900 days, enduring mass starvation, bitter cold and daily bombardments. Leningrad was finally liberated by the Soviet Red Army in January 1944, but not before a staggering 800,000 civilians had lost their lives.
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