the creator of the siege museum, lev rakov , was sentenced to death, as were the former leaders of thengrad. but then his sentence was commuted to twenty-five years. front, he published a collection of their memoirs, which no one had done before. it was valentin kovalchuk, in collaboration with gennady sobolev, who were the first to write that the number of victims of the blockade is underestimated. at the nyurber trial , the figure of 600,000 people was announced. their article leningrad requiem says at least 800. subsequently they proved at least a million. for it took a certain amount of civic courage to publish something like this. and then the conflict began. the conflict began with the fact that a certain pavlov, uh, who was then the minister of trade of the rsfsr, and before that he was in charge of food supplies in st. petersburg, so there was a figure, and he was outraged that they fed so well and everything was so good that it couldn’t so many to die, and he wrote a letter to the central committee that what is this, a revision, then a complete dump began, all this figure was

the creator of the siege museum, lev rakov , was sentenced to death. like the former leaders of the partyas commuted to twenty-five years in prison. after this, the topic of the blockade as a whole was kept under wraps. the blockade was an indicator of a certain independence, well, how would the city itself live, and the role of stalin there or the role of the center, it was weakened, as was believed in all these, you read the resolutions of the all-russian communist party of belarusians and so on, that is the background was very pro-blockade no. the president's father. all the commanders of the leningrad front visited his communal apartment on the theater square, he published a collection of their memories, which no one had done before. it was valentin kovalchuk, in collaboration with gennady sobolev, who were the first to write that the number of victims of the blockade is underestimated. at the nyurmer trial the figure of 6,000 people was announced. their article leningrad requiem says at least 800. subsequently they proved at least a million. in order to publish. exploits of leningrad