In 1941, German forces completely surrounded Leningrad. By the time this blockade was lifted, 872 days had passed and more than 1.5 million innocent civilians had died from starvation or from German artillery bombardment, making it the costliest siege in human history.
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Let us remember this, the next time our MSM feed us anti Russian propaganda and want us to smile and clap knowing Germany has sent German tanks to Ukraine to kill Russians.
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"..today I buried some more of my former parishioners, Gebirgsjäeger [mountain troops], who have died in this frightful land. Three more letters to write to add to the total of all those which I have written already in this war. The deleted names of the fallen are now more numerous in my pocket diary than the names of the living. My parish is bleeding to death on the plains of this country. We shall all die out here.." — Unnamed German Wehrmacht Priest, Eastern Theatre, Autumn 1941.
Too bad Finland wasn't taken before in either the civil war time or by the winter war. It it was, it would have at least stopped Leningrad from being under seize.
No point of watching with the casualties redacted. Don't hide the brutality.
Excellent documentary.
When the German army over ran the countries in Western Europe were not the western allies unprepared for the German advance. But Stalin being unprepared was a special error that requires these sorts of channels to go on and on about Soviet unpreparedness .Blitzkrieg was a new type of warfare that took everyone by surprise not just the Soviet Union .They adapted though didnt they and a few years later they were at the Reichstag
What kind of documentary blacks out entire segments of its own film? Censor yourself…not history. Unwatchable.
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Misleading title. Click bait trick. Why praise it?
I wonder if the Blitzkrieg soldiers said, "Your local area occupation has been sponsored in part thanks to Purvitin"
Actually Stalin said something more like Lenin built our country. We f*cked it up.
We won’t watch blurred video. Show us the real thing or get off the internet.
It was an informative and wonderful documentary… There were huge differences between (the Profesional , the superior quality weapons ,and the concentrated military training of German armies) and its Soviet opponents, (which was divine in ideological learning, obsoleted weapons and living under Stalin purged threats)…at the end poorness, innocent Soviet populations lost 27 million civilian casualties rather than enormous numbers of Soviet soldiers and officers … it was a political business of Heart Europe countries to ward's east .
Hi, would you make a post about the unprovoked Invasion of Israel?
I didn't hear one story from the people who suffered and what it was like. You need to consider a different title because all you showed was battle strategies and equipment and conclusions.
Jeez 90% of that video was just the run-up before the Krauts got to Lgrad, the siege lasted almost 3 years
uploading a historical documentary of such significance and ruining it with blurred out scenes is unforgivable. This was a brutal war fought in some of the most severe weather. Where can I watch an uncensored complete version?
they could have just surrender to the germans no pity with them