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8th September 1941: Start of the Siege of Leningrad
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-09-07 21:05:30
Description: The Siege of Leningrad, one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, began. Nazi Germany’s Lebensraum foreign policy sought to secure living space for future generations of Germans in the ‘Thousand-Year Reich’. Hitler intended the fertile lands of the western USSR to provide food for his new empire, while the native Slavic population would be destroyed and replaced with ethnic Germans. Leningrad, which is now known as Saint Petersburg, was a politically significant Soviet city due to its role in the Bolshevik Revolution. Furthermore it was a centre of industrial production, and had military significance as a base for ...
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