Book: Measure of being

During the period of occupation in Gatchina, 100 people were shot, 762 were hanged, 35,008 died from torture, 80,000 prisoners of war died, 17,000 Soviet people were driven into slavery in Germany. In June 1943, there were 22 thousand inhabitants in Gatchina; at the time of liberation there were 2.5 thousand people here.

Just think, for more than a year we were starved, killed by shells and bombs, and we write poetry, publish magazines and read. We read greedily and avidly.

Familiar to the smallest detail...

No, when the time comes, up there they won’t ask how many books you’ve read and whether you can tell Mozart from Brahms. In that world it doesn't matter. They will ask if there is someone on earth whom you helped, protected, fed. And you will be happy if at least once you can honestly and directly answer: Yes.

Without culture, people run wild and turn into animals. If a person reads great books, listens to beautiful music, then his soul becomes better, kinder.

To ensure that nothing happens to your loved ones, you must wait against all odds, and then all the bullets will definitely whistle past, and the shells will explode on the other side of the battlefield.

The radio operator of the dive bomber could not say that he hated Russians and killed them with pleasure. Not at all! They were not people for him in the literal sense of the word; he perceived them roughly as locusts that had multiplied on the fattest piece of Europe. This seemed an outrageous injustice to the German nation.

In general, they read a lot in the city: on the street, on the tram, in the park, in line - everywhere book pages rustled and covers flashed.

Those people who are destined to meet are connected to each other by an invisible thread. The thread may get tangled or stretched, but it will never break.

- Leave him alone, Pavlukha. My mother also forced me to take a cross, so should I throw it away now? Despite the fact that the Germans hanged my mother for her connection with the partisans.

In honor of May Day, every resident of Leningrad was given half an onion in stores.

From the story of Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad about early Easter in 1942: Wonderful,

Thirteen employees of the All-Union Institute of Plant Growing remained in Leningrad during the blockade and saved the Vavilov collection - tens of tons of grain and tons of potatoes - from destruction. American journalist Georgie Ain Geyer in article 900

Every day a poster was hung at the theater entrance, which in those days was handwritten. Performances were given twice a day. Tickets are in great demand.