An example of genuine courage, steadfastness, true love for the Motherland remains in the people's memory and history of Russia the feat of people, to whose lot the terrible time of the Leningrad blockade fell.
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At the cost of enormous losses, real martyrdom, the Russian people who defended the besieged fascists of Leningrad paid. 900 terrible days and nights claimed the lives of over 600 thousand Leningraders. Residents of the besieged city were dying of hunger, freezing, missing, and died during shelling.
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A feat is called heroic acts committed by people in difficult conditions. To accomplish a feat requires courage and tremendous willpower.
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The common desire of the soldiers and inhabitants of Leningrad - not to surrender their hometown to the enemy - served as the main condition for his invincibility. Warriors-defenders of Leningrad, the people's militia, partisans selflessly defended the city, performing thousands of exploits. But the defense of the city lay on the shoulders of the Leningrad residents themselves. The contribution of the inhabitants supporting the life of the city and the whole country who were caught in the blockade was enormous. The blockade workers had to work on the construction of defensive structures, devote their last forces, releasing military equipment and bombs necessary for the front, to be defenders of their native city during enemy air raids.
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Now it’s hard for many to imagine how scary it is to live in blockade. And Leningraders managed to preserve the main values of world culture in the monstrous conditions of survival. The Hermitage can rightfully be considered a symbol of the invincibility of the culture of the Russian people. This museum lived and worked even under Nazi bombs: it kept the exhibits that remained in it, workers guarded the building from destruction, even conducted tours of empty halls and meetings. Museum defenders starving to death believed that museum collections would live.
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In the besieged Leningrad, the fate of fate turned out to be the famous Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova, who became an ordinary fighter of the fire brigade: she was on duty with a gas mask over her shoulder, sewed bags under the sand. And she wrote poems broadcast on the air. The seriously ill Akhmatova was taken out of the besieged city.
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The voice of Olga Fedorovna Bergolts, who worked on the radio, was for people who were in a blockade, a symbol of hope. The poetess with unprecedented energy in her voice called on the inhabitants to be courageous and created poems that instill faith and hope in barely warming human lives. Olga Bergolts seemed very dangerous for the Nazis: it is no coincidence that the poetess was sentenced to death on their lists.
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Yanina Zheimo, captured in the history of cinema, had a wonderful role as Cinderella, remained to work in Leningrad, although she was repeatedly offered to leave the besieged city. Ioannina acted in film, and in the evenings extinguished incendiary bombs on the roof of the studio. Her huge Leningrad apartment sheltered many homeless people. The fragile fighter of the fighter battalion, in felt boots, a padded jacket and with a rifle behind her shoulders, performed with the Lenfilm concert brigade before the wounded in hospitals and city parks.
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On the fate of people who survived the blockade, you can create a huge tragic story. It is enough to imagine only some terrible moments of their existence in the city taken in the ring. The first winter of the blockade was with severe frosts, and there was no firewood and coal for heating houses. A terrible famine reigned in the city (even leather belts and soles went for food). A worker was supposed to have 250 grams per day. bread baked with wood impurities, and other residents (including children) - half of this norm. Depleted people died families at home or right on city streets. The bodies were covered with snow - there was simply no one to clean them.
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There is the expression "undeniable feat", that is, one that, as a result of its persuasiveness, does not allow objections. A similar feat was made by the inhabitants and defenders of the besieged Leningrad. And there are not enough words to convey admiration for their unbending will and courage, to express appreciation for saving the city and Russia from a cruel enemy.
- Anna Akhmatova, Yanina Zheimo, Olga Berggolz in besieged Leningrad
- The immortal feat of the defenders of Leningrad
- Hermitage during the blockade
