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WWII USSR. Siege of Leningrad, 15 Letters from the Front and to the Front, Correspondence of a Soldier and his Mother, 1943, Censorship, in Russian - WWII USSR. Siege of Leningrad, 15 Letters from the Front and to the Front, Correspondence of a Soldier and his Mother and other People, 1943, Censorship, in Russian Correspondence of people who survived the Siege of Leningrad The siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 to 1944. Leningrad, the country's second largest city, was besieged by Germany and Finland for 872 days, but never captured. The siege was the most destructive in history and possibly the most deadly, causing an estimated 1.5 million deaths, from a prewar population of 3.2 million.[7] It was not classified as a war crime at the time, [8] but some historians have since classified it as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population