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Under Nazi siege: How Saint Petersburg survived the bloodiest blockade in human history
80 years ago, the Red Army launched Operation Iskra, which brought an end to Leningrad's hell Saint Petersburg, then Leningrad, was the scene of one of the bloodiest and most tragic episodes of the Second World War. Nazi Germany's siege of Russia’s former capital lasted 872 days, claiming the lives up to a million civilians and about half-a-million soldiers. Eighty years ago, in a colossal military effort, a breach was made in the blockade of the city: Operation Iskra opened a narrow, bare, exposed, but nevertheless operational land corridor from the ‘mainland.’ This was the first relatively successful attempt to

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