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Leningrad: Famine of 1941-44

Years: 1941 - 1944

The 1941-44 Leningrad famine is caused by a 900-day blockade by German troops.

About one million Leningrad residents starve, freeze, or are bombed to death in the winter of 1941–42, when supply routes to the city are cut off and temperatures drop to −40 degrees.

“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only to avoid them. The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. Let us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask."

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)