The most “inconvenient” and scandalous book by a popular historian. Continuation of the bestsellers “Bloody Red Army” and “Tank Pogrom of 1941”. A new look at the tragedy of the Leningrad Siege. The terrible truth about the longest and most brutal massacre of the Great Patriotic War, which lasted more than two years and claimed millions of lives. Refuting the official Soviet version of the “defense of Leningrad,” this book proves that in fact there was no defense, that the battle for Leningrad “was one continuous offensive of the Red Army, unimaginably bloody, unsuccessful, often meaningless. The troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts that participated in this massacre never defended themselves. They were constantly advancing. For months attacking in the same directions, the Soviet armies suffered huge losses, which increased tenfold due to the lack of training of our troops, the poor professional training of our fathers-commanders and disregard for human life. The battle for Leningrad lasted three years and cost us three million killed, missing, and wounded military personnel. Another million died in the city itself...” This book, for the first time, sheds light on the most terrible massacre of the Second World War, which in terms of losses surpassed even the infamous “Rzhev meat grinder” - to this day, the environs of Leningrad, where millions of our soldiers died, represent a huge a cemetery covering the city within a radius of tens of kilometers...