World History EncyclopediaMar 27
The siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) began during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), during the Second World War (1939-45). #History #EasternFront #German-SovietWar #Leningrad #RedArmy #SecondWorldWar #SiegeOfLeningrad #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2680-en/
Siege of Leningrad

The siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) began during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), during the Second World War (1939-45...

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Paria sans portefeuilleFeb 4

"For the members of the institute, the most pressing question was how – or if – they could protect the seed bank from their own hunger. The first member of the institute to die of starvation was Vavilov’s former secretary, Pavel Gusev, just two months into the siege..."

Jessie Childs reviews #SimonParkin's #TheForbiddenGardenOfLeningrad

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n02/jessie-childs/resident-bean-expert

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Jessie Childs · Resident Bean Expert: Leningrad under Siege

Five thousand Leningraders died of distrofia on Christmas Day 1941. One of them was Aleksandr Shchukin, a 58-year-old...

London Review of Books
Show threadCanadian CroneJan 30
@ddmgmgh @LALegault All we can do is impact our own circle of influence. #StandUpForHumanRights. #GoVote #PunchANazi #DenounceFascism. The #MadonnasOfLeningrad shows how the people resisted Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan. The #SiegeOfLeningrad.
Paria sans portefeuilleJan 29

"In 1941, as Nazi forces laid siege to #Leningrad, a group of #SovietBotanists faced an unthinkable choice: eat their life’s work, a rare seed bank, or starve to death. This is the dilemma at the heart of #SimonParkin’s story about the world's first seed bank and its dedicated #botanists."

#EurasianKnot welcomes the author of #TheForbiddenGarden
https://soundcloud.com/euraknot/ek057

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Saving Seeds During the Siege of Leningrad

In 1941, as Nazi forces laid siege to Leningrad, a group of Soviet botanists faced an unthinkable choice: eat their life’s work, a rare seed bank, or starve to death. This is the dilemma at the heart

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