Academic says contemporaneous accounts of suffering are notably different to stories survivors now tell of triumphant resistance
The discovery of a huge number of unpublished diaries has given an extraordinary insight into one of the most notorious and brutal military sieges in history.
The siege of Leningrad by German and Finnish forces lasted 872 days, from September 1941 to 27 January 1944. Up to 2 million lives were lost, including around 800,000 civilians or 40% of the population of the city now called St Petersburg.
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