During the siege, the city was hit by over 150,000 artillery shells and 107,000 incendiary and high-explosive bombs. More than 1 million citizens of Leningrad, mostly old people, women and ...

Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on 27 January 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind - the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St. Petersburg) - ended. Its importance can ...

A t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...

At the finish of last week, it seemed that SMO had already ended and it was time to glue the fragments of "one people" ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland, freeing some 7,000 survivors.

In 1944, the Soviet army lifted the Siege of Leningrad, a more than 2-year occupation ... Months later, four Jewish young women told United Press correspondent Edward W. Beattie Jr. how they ...

Although Fort Totleben itself did not feature prominently during the Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944), the network of forts around Kronstadt, including Totleben, helped secure the sea approaches ...

As alert Wings readers know, we’re fond of a WW2 analogy from time to time. The conflict is so extensively documented, and so ...

When I grieve the dead of World War II, I grieve the German dead of Dresden, the Japanese dead of Tokyo and Hiroshima, the dead of the Leningrad siege, the millions of ... [1] Leftist women found ...