Happy Victory Day!

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Сообщение от Igor Guriev

in London from German bombing killed about 40,000 people - more than in the city from shelling and bombing, or comparable.

The loss of the population (blockade of Leningrad)

During the years of embargo have died, according to various sources, from 400 thousand to 1.5 million people. Thus, at the Nuremberg trials figured number 632,000 people. Only 3%of them were killed by bombing and shelling, and the remaining 97%died from starvation.

Most died in the siege of Leningrad residents buried at the memorial cemetery Piskarevskoye Vyborg. This is the memorable place in St. Petersburg. The area of the cemetery is 26 hectares, the length of the wall is 150 meters with a height of 4.5 m. The stones are carved lines survived the blockade writer Olga Bergholz. In a long line of graves lie the victims of the blockade, the number of which are only in this cemetery is 640 000 people died from hunger and more than 17,000 people have been victims of air raids and artillery shelling. The total number of civilian casualties in the city for all time of war than 1,2 million people.

Also many of the dead body of Leningrad were cremated in the furnaces of the brick factory, located on the territory of the Moscow Victory Park. The park was built a chapel and a monument to "trolley" - One of the worst sites of St. Petersburg. At these trolleys were taken after the dust of the dead burned in the furnaces of the plant in nearby careers.

Serafimov cemetery was also a mass grave of Leningrad, perished and died during the siege of Leningrad. In 1941-1944. Here were buried more than 100 thousand people.

The dead were buried in almost all cemeteries in the city (Volkov, Krasnen'ke and others). During the battle for Leningrad killed more people than Britain and the United States lost for all time of war.