> People outside of the former USSR don’t really know about the siege. They often confuse it with the Siege of Stalingrad, by which they mean the Battle of Stalingrad, which was also a big deal, but not like the
Siege of Leningrad.
Indeed we don't and indeed we do.
> 1.5m people died in the siege. It was and remains the largest-ever depopulation of any city in human history.
Woah.