The horror Siege of Leningrad: How 1.5million people died during Nazi starvation blockade that saw mothers resort to feeding their babies BLOOD and families turn to cannibalism - but Vladimir Putin's mum survived

A baby sucking blood rather than milk from its mother; a human leg found in a worker's locker; children ending up stooped and hairy. These are scenes that would be at home in the fertile mind of a horror fiction writer. But, more than 80 years ago, amidst the beautiful architecture and majestic culture of Russia's second city, this was the reality. The 900-day Siege of Leningrad, imposed by the invading forces of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany from September 1941, left an estimated 1.

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