The two-and-a-half-year siege of Leningrad begins: the number of Russian civilian casualties will be four times that of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, or 35 times that of the bombing of London. More Russians died in Leningrad than Americans in all the wars ever fought by the United States. In 2004, when the archives are opened, over two thousand cases of people arrested for cannibalism between 1941 and 1942 will be confirmed.
