World War 2 Soviet Union
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The German's invading Russia! What did Russia have to eat!?
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- HEIL HITLER!!!!
- In 1941 during the Nazi siege of Leningrad (as St. Petersburg was then called), one of history’s greatest and most gruesome tragedies.They blocked off all food supplies. The official daily ration was 125 grams of bread, about the weight of a bar of soap. Leningraders supplemented it with anything they could:
- Nazi armies encircled Leningrad for nearly three years. Though the Germans bombed it almost every day, their chief weapon was hunger. German scientists carefully calculated rates of starvation and predicted that Leningrad would eat itself within weeks.
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- murderous gangs roamed wartime Leningrad’s streets, killing for ration cards or human meat. cannibalism was so much a fact of everyday life that parents feared their children would be eaten if allowed out after dark.
- They scraped wallpaper down and ate the paste, which was supposedly made from potatoes. They extracted the same paste from bookbindings, or drank it straight from the glue jar. They boiled leather belts and briefcases to make an edible jelly, and plucked and pickled grasses and weeds
- They ate cats and dogs, petroleum jelly and lipstick, spices and medicines, fur coats and leather caps. Some made face-powder pancakes; others munched grimy crystallized sugar, dug out from under the sugar warehouses leveled by German firebombs.
- Three million people endured the 900-day blockade. A million or more died, mostly civilians felled by hunger and cold. That’s 10 times the number of deaths caused by the bombing of Hiroshima, and about equal to all American casualties in all U.S. wars combined.
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