Day of lifting the siege of Leningrad

The Great Patriotic War ... No, it's not just a fact of history, it's part of us, it's ourselves. Every citizen of the post-Soviet space, regardless of age and gender, nationality and religion - understands what "the same war" is, and we have no right to forget it.

One of the central and most terrible events of the Second World War is the blockade of Leningrad, now the great and flourishing city of St. Petersburg. 900 (to be exact, 871) days and exactly the same number of nights - this is the duration of the blockade of Leningrad, briefly about which can be said with one phrase: the great grief of the people. The day of lifting the siege of Leningrad today is officially considered the day of military glory.

Terrible statistics: more than 700 thousand people died in those terrible years, 650 thousand of them died of hunger. And only with a small 3% were victims of bombing and shelling. But the worst thing was that the children were dying, the children remained completely alone and had to (some if they could) and somehow bury adults ...

The bloody siege began on September 8, 1941. The story of this tragedy, however, originates a lot earlier, from the summer of the fateful 41st, when German troops began shelling and bombing the city, and also cut the iron tracks-that thread that connected Leningrad with the whole country. According to the plan "Barbarossa", Leningrad, all its inhabitants, as well as the soldiers defending it, must be completely destroyed. The plan failed, the Reichstag troops could not break through the defense. Then it was decided to take the recalcitrant hailstorm. The only rescue was Ladoga Lake, on the ice crust of which November 22, 1941, the famous "Road of Life" was created. According to it, under the endless cannonade of fascist guns, cars with food products moved - there, and with evacuated residents - back. The lake saved the lives of almost 1.5 million people. But how far was the day of lifting the blockade of the city of Leningrad ...

The enemy ring was made possible to break through on January 18, 1943. Operation Iskra ended with the restoration of the city's supply. But only a year later, on January 27, 1944, he came, most probably, a memorable day for today's Petersburgers - the day of lifting the blockade of Leningrad. The operation called "January Thunder" threw the enemy away many kilometers from the city's border.

The history of the siege of Leningrad would not have been complete without a description of the heroism and fortitude of the common people, ordinary Leningraders. No wonder the great Kazakh poet Dzhambul Dzhabayev in excitement wrote: "The Leningraders, my children! Leningraders, my pride! ". Indeed, pride, pride of the whole country ...

During the siege, the production of military products in factories did not stop for a day. Worked all - men, women, old people, teenagers, children - in a fainting state of hunger. Do not become a hindrance and constant bombing of the Kirov plant. If in September-October the air alarm, during which everyone left their workplaces and hid in shelters, was announced with any number of enemy aircraft, it was soon decided not to leave the work with a raid of 1-2 aviators. The Motherland needed weapons, everyone understood this perfectly ...

Until the moment when the day of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad came, its cultural elite did not remain aloof. Theaters, libraries, museums allowed to feel at least a little Leningraders that they live. New plays were staged on the stage, radio was broadcast, according to which residents not only learned the latest news, but also received support from writers, poets, announcers. Hardly the city would survive without all this ...

This date, the day of lifting the blockade of Leningrad, we will never forget. It's just impossible to forget!