What was it like for civilians during the Siege of Leningrad?

Winter is coming. It always comes to Leningrad, fierce and relentless, but in September 1941 it arrives like an executioner. The city is ringed by German and Finnish armies—almost three million souls trapped inside what will become a vast, frozen prison. The siege is not just a military campaign. It’s a slow-motion catastrophe, a war waged against hope itself.
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