HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Leningrad
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Stalingrad
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Moscow
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Siege of Leningrad, also called 900-day siege, prolonged siege (September 8, 1941–January 27, 1944) of the city of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the Soviet Union by German and Finnish armed forces during World War II.
Detailed explanation-2: -The siege of Leningrad (1941-1944) Lasting 900 days between September 1941 and January 1944, the siege of Leningrad claimed the lives of 800, 000 of the city’s inhabitants, mainly through cold and hunger.
Detailed explanation-3: -On September 8, 1941, German forces closed in around the Soviet city of Leningrad, initiating a siege that would last nearly 900 days and claim the lives of 800, 000 civilians.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the siege, winters were the time of the highest mortality rates among the civilian population. Tens of thousands of civilians froze to death in Leningrad. Due to a lack of power supplies, many factories were closed down and, in November, all public transportation services became unavailable.
Detailed explanation-5: -German troops prevented supplies from reaching Leningrad from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944. Of a population of 2.9 million (including 0.5 million children), 630 000 died from hunger-related causes, 15 most during the winter of 1941-2.