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justawoman Jan-25 9:03 am
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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.
"The Siege of Leningrad, also known as The Leningrad Blockade (Russian: блокада Ленинграда (transliteration: blokada Leningrada) was an unsuccessful military operation by the Axis powers to capture Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) during World War II. The siege lasted from September 9, 1941, to January 27, 1944, when a narrow land corridor to the city was established by the Soviets. The total lifting of the siege occurred on January 27, 1944. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad
The city has been surrounded by Nazi troops for the period more than two years. For this period the citizens had to form thir own Army, produce the armaments and find the food supplies. January 27 is a Victory day for every Leningradian citizen, on this day the siege has been broken, they won.
My mother's family had to come through the siege. My grandfather was a worker, he went to the front as a volunteer and has been killed at the beginning of the siege. My grandmother was lucky to survive alone with three small children.
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From: justawoman Jan-25 9:12 am
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This just a story of an ordinary woman ( just a woman), there were so many of them in Leningrad that withstood those hard times.
How the war started
The war began on June 22, 1941. It was a Sunday. I worked as a chemist in the laboratory of the factory Krasny Khimik (Red Chemist) in the city of Leningrad. On this day, I was on call working alone, and only at 12 o'clock during my lunch break, when I went to the dining room, I heard from a loud-speaker the terrible news that the Soviet Union was being attacked by the Germans and they were bombing our cities. Of course, I was very scared. I had three small children from 2 to 5 years of age, and I was expecting another one. I did not have any place or anybody to go to outside of Leningrad, so I remained at home. On July 5th, my husband, Michael Pesin, left as a volunteer to the front. On July 27, I gave birth to a daughter, and I definitely had to stay in Leningrad with the children and my mother. Soon, the Germans began to bomb Leningrad, dropping incendiary bombs on residential buildings. The people living in these apartments were mostly women and children. Everywhere, there were people on duty on the roofs and in the attics. They extinguished the bombs by covering them with sand or they dumped them to the ground.
The first bombardment was on the 8th of September 1941, and it burned the Badaevsky food warehouses. These warehouses had held huge stockpiles of products intended for the city, and therefore, when the Germans surrounded Leningrad, the famine started. People who did not work received 125 grams of bread, and children received 150 grams. We received some food products using ration cards, but they never lasted long enough, and people began dying of hunger.
I started going to the market to try to exchange everything that was possible for food products to try to save my children from starvation. We lived on the fifth floor of an apartment building, and at one point a corner of our building was hit by a bomb and the entire ceiling collapsed. We had to move to a single room on the first floor. The room was small, dark, and the glass in the window had been broken; it was necessary to board it up with plywood. The apartment already did not have electricity and there was no water either. For water, we had to go to the river Neva with a bucket, and instead of electricity for lighting, we had a wick lamp which consisted of a saucer with some kind of oil and a wick made from cotton. The lamp always smoked, and we walked around with black noses. During the bombing raids I took the children to hide in a bomb shelter. There, I had a bed for the children and two chairs for me and my mother. I always had with me a backpack with a bottle of water, a package of cookies, a bar of chocolate, and diapers for the baby. I thought that this could save us from death until help arrived if we got buried in the bomb shelter and we might not be able to get out.
One time, I went to the market and at this time the bombing started. We were not permitted to walk in the streets during the bombing raids, and I decided to hide in the vestibule of a big building. A lot of people were already there and they did not want me because they said that they were already so crowded that they could not breathe. I did not want to argue, and I went to the other side of the street and I stood under the gate of another building. Ten minutes later, I heard the whistling of a bomb and it fell on the building from where I got expelled. All the people who were in the vestibule died. I was in shock, and I could hardly go home to the children. I could not believe that I was still alive. The Germans bombed Leningrad daily, at the same time every morning and evening, and they also started shelling the city every day. Shells exploded in the streets and killed people. It was frightening to go out. Many people died of hunger. Walking in the yard with the children, I saw the janitors go into the apartments and then bring down the dead into the yard to pile them in stacks on the ground. Later, a truck would come to take them away to the Piskarevskoe cemetery.
When winter started, nobody cleaned the snow from the streets, trolleys did not run, there was no electricity, and as before, we went to get water from the river Neva. This was difficult. In winter it was slippery everywhere, the ice was not removed, people fell then stood up and carried their water home. Some people used hand-held containers and others used buckets on sleds. To avoid starving, we went to nearby villages, dug in abandoned fields for small potatoes, and collected frozen cabbage leaves. We brought all this home, boiled it, and ate it. And again, we tried to exchange everything we could with the farmers for food products. One time, my husband came from the front and brought us a loaf of bread and some cereal grains. This was a great pleasure and support because we were already very weak and could barely walk. My relatives also helped us as much as they could. Once they brought us a sunflower cake which is a by-product of sunflower oil extraction, we ground it into flour and made pancakes. In general, we kept going as best we could and survived even though we were scared, cold and hungry.
On the 27th of January, 1943 our troops broke through the blockade of Leningrad and it became easier to live. Availability of bread and food products increased. The bombing and shooting stopped. Kindergartens were opened where our young children were treated and fed. Gradually, we returned to normal life and improved our health somewhat. I was lucky. My children and I survived. My husband returned from the front wounded but alive, and after the war, I gave him a son.
http://www.scientificpsychic.com/etc...odikel-en.html
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From: justawoman Jan-25 9:42 am
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Photos of blockade:
http://basik.ru/historical/1805/
With a portion of bred
The men became weak from starvation earler than women -transportation on sledges
The food supplies were carried through the ice of the Ladoga Lake under the shelling.
Trying to make a temporary bridge through the ice hole aftere the bombing
The women the volunteers
Protection of the sky
Cleaning the street after the long winter
Partly destriyed building -the bomb destroyed the appartment and those who lived there
Totally destroyed by fire building
Shelling
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Transportation of those who died from starvation
Awaiting the evacuation through the Ladoga lake, many trucks have been bombed on their way and people died before they could reach the Big Land that was controlled by the soviet army.
Women worked on the plants that produced tanks and other military supplies
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The women faught with fire because most of the men were on the front
The young lady on the left has a great exhaustion
The well-known pages from the diary of a girl Tanya Savicheva with the dates of death of all of her relatives, the last pages -"All Savichevy are dead, only Tanya is left"
Edited 1/25/2009 9:43 am by justawoman
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From: justawoman Jan-25 10:39 am
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I recommend to see this movie about the siege, it is made of a simple chronicles of those days, with no comments, only the sounds of a city are restored. You get the feeling of reality as if it is You who wandere along the streets of the city while it is trying to protect itself, to fight and withstand the war.
Part 1 It was interesting for me to see the faces of captured Germans how they looked brave at the beginning of their "excursion along the blocked Leningrad" and how they looked scared at the end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4RdjV28qYY
Part 2 - shelling and bombing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31G1MA4uVag
Part 3 - disassembling of what has remained, most statues ( including the horses of the Anichkov bridge) have been dismantled and buried in the parks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5oGr_ulxsA
Part 4 - winter came: no electricity, no heating, no food, no water at home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASdD6HjA2YY
Part 5 - attempts to evacuate, those who remain try to get the water and firewood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5ZHw16wfhk
Part 6 - very hard to watch, dead bodies on the streets were a usual thing, they were transported usually without any coffins to the special stations where the special people put them into the common graves. Some people awaited the evacuation on the bank of the Ladoga Lake. At last the blockade was broken and the people gathered on the Neva embankment to watch the fireworks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpLxm1nXX3A
Part 7 - the final episode is a recompense- public execution of traitors that took place in Leningrad on January 5,1946
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpTcxD9BMOM
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From: justawoman Jan-25 10:52 am
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10231.5 in reply to 10231.3
Shostakovich 7th Symphony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKOZEW9SfdU
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From: Nissy (NISSY2) Jan-25 9:46 pm
To: justawoman (6 of 14)
10231.6 in reply to 10231.2
There are similarities to what the Israelis have just done to the people of Gaza, especially the destruction of food warehouses.
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From: DClift (DClift2) Jan-26 3:02 am
To: justawoman (7 of 14)
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Remember see a film on "History Channel", saddest scene was children's caps floating in the water after the boat they were be evacuated on was sunk by German shells.
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From: justawoman Jan-26 10:32 am
To: Nissy (NISSY2) (8 of 14)
10231.8 in reply to 10231.6
Methods have changed since that time.
Today white phosphorus is used against the children.
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From: justawoman Jan-26 10:38 am
To: DClift (DClift2) (9 of 14)
10231.9 in reply to 10231.7
Evacuation was like a lottery: you could die or you could live, you could stay and die or you could die during the evacuation.
My grandmother prefered to stay.
Actually, she made the attempt of evacuation at the very beginning of the war but the train has been stopped because the railway has been cut off by Nazi troops ( it was all of a sudden, that the people realized that they were in the circle)
They returned home and my grandmother thought it was a "sign" for her to stay and not to use any other chances to leave the city.
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From: DClift (DClift2) Jan-26 12:34 pm
To: justawoman (10 of 14)
10231.10 in reply to 10231.9
The whole siege was "like a lottery that had no winners," very hard and sad time.
I seem to remember that the boat sunk was full of school children. The vision of the little hats floating in the water was very moving, more so than, the graphic view of dead bodies.
I was far removed from that, I remember my Mom telling me to clean my plate, because little Russian children were starving!
I did drive a tractor at age six to help in the harvest of corn, part of what I was told was it would bring Dad home sooner. Can't say I suffered any.
Very different from the experiences you family had. My father and eight uncles were in the military, but all came home, without a wound. Unless you count the one Uncle that dived under the kitchen table when Grandma dropped a dish, he eventually stopped that.
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From: justawoman Jan-26 6:57 pm
To: DClift (DClift2) (11 of 14)
10231.11 in reply to 10231.10
My mom remembers the blockade because she was 8, her sister ( my aunt) remembers very little if not to say nothing, she was only 5 and was too weak to watch and remember, my uncle was only 2 years old, he was the weakest but my grandmother managed to drag him out of death's claws. His passed away when he was about 50, his health was not good.
My mother managed to miss only one year at school ( the hardest 1942 ) in 1943 she joined the other pupils.
My father's memory was broad, he had to accompany his mother and small sister, they had to thread their way through the Cossack villages that have been suddenly attacked by Nazi troops. They crossed the front line and have been evacuated to the small Siberian town where the children over 10 ( my father was 12) had to work on the just organized military plant. He often said that he was always hungry and to slake the hunger he ate the bark of the birch .
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From: justawoman Jan-27 6:55 pm
To: DClift (DClift2) (12 of 14)
10231.12 in reply to 10231.11
Some photos with children
New born
In the hospital
Bomb shelter
Instruction of the population how to make a stove
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From: Nissy (NISSY2) Jan-28 2:07 am
To: justawoman (13 of 14)
10231.13 in reply to 10231.12
No smiles
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From: justawoman Jan-28 5:24 am
To: Nissy (NISSY2) (14 of 14)
10231.14 in reply to 10231.13
No force to smile. Children were scared and tired.
But actually there is no tradition to make a smile for the photo, otherwise they would be asked to make a smile and probably some would put a smile on the face.
Compare with the photo of tsar's family(the happiest in Russia) - no smiles either
http://www.parallelsixty.com/images/...s%20family.jpg
Edited 1/28/2009 6:50 am by justawoman
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The Seige of Leningrad
