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  8. Leningraders Died Not from the German Blockade but from Moscow Communist Failure to Send Food, Solonin Says. Staunton, January 27 – One of the central stories of the Soviet and Moscow narrative about World War II is that hundreds of thousands of people in the northern capital died from starvation when the city was surrounded by Nazi forces and that further disasters were prevented only when Soviet forces broke that blockade after 900 days. Solonin argues that “the cause of the famine which carried off hundreds of thousands of human lives was not ‘the blockade’ and the absence of transport communications, but the absence of supplies which could have been brought to the city which was dying from hunger” ...“for the supply of Leningrad by water transport, it was necessary to cross no more than 25 to 40 kilometers from the western to the southern shore of Lake Ladoga,” something that could have been arranged. But there are other problems with the Soviet narrative, Solonin continues. Had the blockade remained in place 900 days as Moscow historians insist, no one would have been alive at the end with the famous bread ration of 125 grams of bread. That means that it wasn’t nearly as total or as long as the Russian story has it. “The only explanation of this ‘miracle’ is that there was no ‘blockade and that the city was supplied by waterways across Lake Ladoga and by automobiles when the lake was frozen in winter.” There was sufficient shipping capacity for that to have occurred, the Estonia-based Russian historian says.
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  19. PART 2. Attention is drawn to the fact that the broad Soviet partisan movement was organized only in Belarus and partially on the ethnic Belarusian lands that were part of Russia (Smolensk region, Bryansk region). There was no partisan movement in occupied Russia. Why? Because the plan for the destruction of the Belarusian nation continued to operate. Moscow, using the organs of the NKVD, dragged the masses of the Belarusian civilian population into the war against the Germans, and thereby exposed the Belarusians to the German attack. The necessary work of the struggle proceeded from an insidious plan and was carried out by vile methods. (Stalin wanted to get a double benefit.) Enkavadists specifically killed a German near a Belarusian village or made another provocation in order to cause a punitive operation of the Nazis (who usually burned the whole village, most often together with people). Thus, by the way, as a result of a special provocation of the Soviet partisans, the famous Khatyn was also burned, which the communists later advertised to the whole world in the 70s as a typical victim of fascist atrocities. As a result of this communist-fascist joint "work", more than 9 thousand villages were burned in Belarus. Moscow did not trust the Belarusians. Therefore, by the end of the war, as a result of a special operation of the NKVD, many Belarusian commanders were sent to death, removed from command, killed and repressed. Their places were taken by Russians sent from Muscovy and loyal NKVADists. In the summer of 1944, when the "Red Army" occupied Belarus, the Russians mobilized into the army on Belarusian territory. Tens of thousands of young Belarusian men, almost without preparation, were thrown into the front line of the front. Russian commanders raised them into unnecessary attacks under the fire of German machine guns, without even giving weapons in hand, or with rifles, but no cartridges. They died in thousands, like grass under a scythe. And those that fled back, fell under the bullets of the NKVD"
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