The Siege of Leningrad
In 1941, Hitler ordered the German Army to invade Russia. The Nazis raced across Russia's heartland until they reached Leningrad - the cradle of the Bolshevik Revolution. But the city did not fall quickly to Hitler's troops. Instead it resisted.
The siege of Leningrad began on September 8, 1941 and ended on January 27, 1944. For 872 days the city was surrounded. Within, the inhabitants fell into despair, starvation and cannibalism. Well over a million people lost their lives during this period. It is a breathtaking story both of heroism and mankind's failings - and one of the worst atrocities carried out by Germany during the Second World War. The unbreakable will and suffering of the people of modern day St. Petersburg remains, to this day, the stuff of legend.
In Michael Kloft's astonishing new documentary, British historian Anna Reid uses eyewitness accounts and files of the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) to help bring to light what actually happened in Leningrad during the siege. Rarely seen film and photographic material, original diaries and documents from the time illustrate the tragedy. From the director of The Goebbels Experiment and Firestorm.
Please note, THE SIEGE FOR LENINGRAD was made for international television, with interviews conducted in Russian overdubbed in English. This is the only English version of this important documentary.
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Not a single word of the Stalin-Hitler 'non-aggression Pact signed in 1938 (even as Operation Barbarossa was on the drawing boards). No mention of Lenin's determination that Stalin be removed as Chairman of the party back in 1924 due to his arrogance and mis-leadership. Nothing referencing ...Read more
Not a single word of the Stalin-Hitler 'non-aggression Pact signed in 1938 (even as Operation Barbarossa was on the drawing boards). No mention of Lenin's determination that Stalin be removed as Chairman of the party back in 1924 due to his arrogance and mis-leadership. Nothing referencing Stalin's slaughter of the entire original Bolsheviks on the Central Committee of the Communist Party—especially the Left Opposition and leadership of the Red Army which would have given Hitler second thoughts about going up against the Army which had defended the revolution. lots of sad imagery here.....but with zero context.
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