One last natural obstacle
The Luga river crossed
Determined to take Leningrad

No matter the cost
Not the final storm attack
Awe and disbelief

Build up the surrounding
A city under siege


Man the ramparts
And the barricades
Attempts fail to break

Through this blockade
In a circle of hostility
Easy target for artillery


Intruder fire
Comes from everywhere

Inhabitants
Completely unprepared
Provision depots go up in flames

Replenishments burn down
Whilst on their way


Stocks increasing, low rations
In the clasp of starvation
Famine stirs up apathy

Hunger seals their destiny

Skeletons once humans

Consuming saw-dust bread
Meal of glue a substitute
As they starve to death

With all windows broken
It begins to freeze
Starvelings collapsing

Bodies pave the street

Over Lake Ladoga

Logistics on the ice
Evacuate the wounded
Bringing in supplies

900 days it lasted
The brutal cruel bloodshed
The massacred children

Never to forget