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The new lecture on the channel "History Lessons with Tamara Eidelman" is dedicated to the siege of Leningrad - one of the most famous and at the same time most hushed up events of World War II. Hundreds of books have been written about this horrific tragedy, but it seems that we still have not reached its true depths. BOOKS: 1. Irina Paperno. The Siege of Man. 2. Olga Berggolts. Olga. Forbidden Diary. 3. Lydia Ginzburg. Notes of a Man under Blockade. 4. Ales Adamovich, Daniil Granin. The Blockade Book. Upcoming performances Tickets at https://eidelman.ru Berlin 8.10, Barcelona 11.10, Nice 13.10, Riga 15.10, Warsaw 17.10, Prague 19.10, Amsterdam 20.10, London 25.10. Support the channel: FOR FOREIGN CARDS — Support the release of new history lessons on the Patreon platform — / eidelman FOR RUSSIAN CARDS — Support the release of new history lessons on the Boosty platform — https://boosty.to/eidelman/ Support the release of new history lessons by becoming a sponsor on YouTube — / @tamaraeidelmanhistory Using cryptocurrency: BTC: bc1qepf70kndy4ce6yxg6vxh9j98utx690w529fl9s ETH: 0x0Ebc2cCcD4Fd705CfFC5F25B271871df71c8332B USDT: 0x8d0B26D5f58e4a1B2Cc702C431CB7B444F9452F6 (ERC20 network) USDT: TC5eXDPz8TuXPiHLDLbGkmN2rnQkg3Qe5W (TRC20 network) #eidelman #history #blockade Follow us on social media, where we regularly publish additional stories: Follow Tamara Natanovna on Instagram — / tamaraeidelman Subscribe to our Telegram channel — https://t.me/eidelman Subscribe to our Facebook page — / eidelmantn 00:00:00 — Introduction. Lecture topic. 00:00:31 — Well-known facts about the siege of Leningrad. 0:03:04 — Lack of processing of the trauma of sieged Leningrad. 0:05:08 — Was the German invasion of the USSR unexpected? 0:07:31 — The rapid advance of the Germans across the territory of the USSR. The construction of the Luga line. 0:09:18 — The Finnish invasion of the USSR. The ambiguous personality of Field Marshal Mannerheim. 0:12:27 — The beginning of the siege. Did Adolf Hitler want to take Leningrad? 0:15:22 — Attempts to break the siege. 0:18:21 — The German offensive. Increased artillery shelling of the city. Breaking the siege and lifting it. 0:19:13 — The horrors of the siege in the diaries of eyewitnesses. 0:22:32 — Artillery shelling. Memories of Olga Berggolts, Lydia Ginzburg and Olga Freidenberg. 0:29:43 — Hunger in besieged Leningrad. Food cards. 0:33:01 — Cold in besieged Leningrad. Power and water supply cutoffs. 0:35:38 — How did a person change during the siege? 0:37:48 — The image of blockaded Leningrad in Alexei Krasovsky’s film “Holiday”. 0:40:48 — Why is it so difficult to describe the blockade famine? 0:43:05 — Cannibalism in the poems of Gennady Gor. 0:46:16 — Anthropological and psychological changes in a hungry man. 0:49:07 — A different reality for those in power. A ban on parcels to Leningrad. The war diary of Vsevolod Vishnevsky. 0:54:48 — Olga Freidenberg’s unsuccessful attempt to evacuate. Memories of Leningraders on the streets of the city. 0:56:35 — The impact of hunger on family relationships. The dilemma and pangs of conscience of a starving man. 1:00:07 — The need of a blockade man for cultural life. 1:01:06 — Aberration of memories of the pre-war years. The Siege of Leningrad: The Norm of Soviet Life? 1:05:58 — Tanya Savicheva’s Diary. How Did the Savichev Family Suffer from the Soviet State? 1:09:06 — Lack of State Support During the Siege. Terror. 1:17:07 — Exploitation of the Distorted Image of the Siege Today. 1:18:21 — Leningrad Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich. 1:20:52 — Substitution of Concepts in the History of the War. The Need of Eyewitnesses to Tell the Truth. 1:23:26 — Sincerity in the Poems and Diaries of Olga Berggolts. 1:24:56 — The False Image of the Siege in the Works of Soviet Writers. Transformation of Tragedy into Heroism. 1:31:19 — The Forced Autonomy of Leningrad. 1:33:47 — Artificial heroism in Vera Ketlinskaya's novel "Under Siege". 1:37:50 — The history of the creation of the Museum of the Defense of Leningrad. 1:44:43 — The tightening of Joseph Stalin's policies after the war. How did this turn out for the Museum of the Defense of Leningrad? 1:51:04 — Was the tragedy of the Leningrad siege understood? 1:52:59 — Anna Akhmatova and Olga Berggolts' thoughts on war, government and freedom.