Unknown facts about the Blockade

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Before citing a seditious article by Alexei Kungurov, dedicated to the Siege of Leningrad, we offer several facts:

• During the blockade, private cameras were confiscated from Leningraders, and it was forbidden to take any pictures of the besieged city. People who tried to take photographs for themselves were arrested, accused of espionage, and shot (or imprisoned).
• The commander of Group North, von Leeb, openly accused Hitler of conspiring with the Soviet command. This is a fairly well-known fact, since Ritter (Knight without transfer of title) Von Leeb was a famous person.
• The Finnish army could destroy the conditional cover of St. Petersburg from the North in a day. This army stood on the borders of the territory, which reached the city bus routes of the city of Leningrad.

About mathematics and historical reality

Walking through St. Petersburg, you notice that every house and every monument reminds of the great historical past of this city. The great and heroic past is not disputed by anyone, but conditions, in which ordinary people had to make superhuman efforts, starve and die, upon closer examination, it turns out artificially created.

Storytelling blockade of Leningrad we know that during the war the city was subjected to intense bombardment and artillery shelling. Old signs are still found on the walls of houses in St. Petersburg, informing that this side is safe during shelling, and on the facades of houses you can see marks from shells that hit them.

Under these conditions, the inhabitants of Leningrad performed feats every day, worked and slowly died of hunger. To raise morale, at one time in the political administration of Leningrad there was an idea to glorify the immortal feat of the inhabitants of the city, and in one of its newspapers there was a note about the heroic labor of Leningrad residents under conditions of constant shelling. It contains information that fell on the territory of Leningrad 148 thousand 478 shells … This figure became the standard for all the years of the blockade, sunk into the minds of historians, and they could no longer get rid of it.

Here's how historians describe these events:

Please note: on September 15, the shelling lasted 18 hours, and not one gun was firing, but the entire artillery of the front. At St. Isaac's Cathedral on this occasion, they even hung a commemorative plaque (in honor of the perpetuation of the fact that a shell hit the column of St. Isaac's Cathedral). But an elementary check of this figure shows that it was taken from the ceiling and in no way reflects real events (at the time of the end of the siege of Leningrad).

You can prove it right on your fingers! Let's take a large-caliber long-range gun (155, 203 or 210 mm). This tool does 1 shot for 2 (two minutes. In an hour, this weapon makes 30 shots. For a working day - 240 shots (8-hour working day, we remember that German soldiers fought on schedule, these are not robots, they must eat and rest), for 18 hours of continuous shelling, the gun makes 540 shots, for 430 hours - 12 900 shots. Accordingly, the artillery battery during the same time makes 77 400 shots, and the artillery division - 232 200 shots. For 900 days of siege 1 such weapon does "everything" 216 thousand shots.

The standard artillery battery of our and the German army consisted of 6 guns, an artillery division - 18 guns, and there were a sufficient number of such divisions at the front in the German army, all cities after the war were in ruins.

Thus, from the verification of the information given by historians in writing, we can conclude that there were much more falling shells, which is confirmed by the destruction of Leningrad. The constant repetition of this fact by historians speaks of their inability or unwillingness to move away from the prevailing myth.

Second fact, which is very alarming in the description of the Siege of Leningrad, is the complete non-observance of the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy.

Third fact - a constant game of giveaway from the German troops.

Let's start with giveaways. Von Leib, commander of Army North, was a competent and experienced commander. He had before 40 divisions (including tank). The front in front of Leningrad was 70 km long. The density of troops reached the level of 2-5 km per division in the direction of the main attack. In this situation, it is only historians who do not understand anything about military affairs to say that under these conditions he could not take the city.

We have repeatedly seen in feature films about the defense of Leningrad how German tankers drive into the suburbs, crush and shoot a tram. The front was brokenand there was no one ahead of them. In their memoirs, von Leib and many other commanders of the German army argued that they were forbidden to take the city, gave the order to withdraw from advantageous positions.

The next interesting point

It is known that Kirovsky plant worked all the time of the blockade. The second fact is also known - he was in 3 (three!!!) kilometers from the front line. For people who did not serve in the army, I will say that a bullet from a Mosin rifle can fly at such a distance if you shoot in the right direction (I just keep silent about large-caliber artillery pieces).

Residents were evacuated from the area of the Kirov plant, but the plant continued to work under the very nose of the German command, and it was never destroyed (although, with this task could cope with one artillery lieutenant with a battery of not the largest caliber, with the correct task and a sufficient amount of ammunition).

About historical myths and reality

The Kirov plant produced various products: KV-1 tanks, SAU-152 self-propelled guns, by 1943 they mastered the production of IS-1 and IS-2 tanks (in the background, SAU-152 is being assembled). From the photos posted on the Internet, we can imagine the scale of production of tanks (this is a large and mass production). In addition to the Kirov plant, other plants in Leningrad also worked, producing shells and other military products.

In the spring of 1942, tram traffic resumed in Leningrad …

This is just a small piece of reality, very different from the historical myths written by professional historians.

Now a little about physics

One of the questions that no "historian" can answer is the question: where did they get their electrical energy in the right amount?

For the basic of the laws of physics says that energy does not come from anywhere and does not go anywhere, but translated into everyday language, it sounds like this: how much energy produced, so much and spent (and no more). There are standards in man-hours and units of energy spent on the production of a unit of production, let it be a shell or a tank, and these standards are rather big.

A little of the economy

Based on the standards of that time, a certain amount of resources and materials was distributed between industries without excesses, in accordance with plans and tasks. Based on this distribution, the minimum stocks of raw materials, materials, tools and finished products were created at enterprises, which ensured the uninterrupted operation of factories (usually for two weeks, less often for a month) with a constant supply of the necessary (as mining or production) and dispatch of finished products.

Under the conditions of the blockade of a single city, there are no strategic reserves of fuel, raw materials, materiel and energy capable of meeting the needs of the city (or at least industry) for more than three months. In conditions of austerity of energy and foodstuffs it is possible to stretch stocks, but to save electricity it is necessary to stop production - the main consumer of energy, but this did not happen. Plants in Leningrad did not stop for a day.

One can agree with the assumption that part of the coal for energy production was taken from the fleet, but the main base of the fleet was Tallinn, and it was captured. Thermal power plants consume much more coal than any ship. Let's see what the "historians" and "chroniclers" write about this:

The fact remains: the amount of products produced is counted and announced, you cannot argue with the fact. Now let's think a little about what the historians actually wrote.

First question - by the method of delivery from the besieged city to the active army and mostly near Moscow 713 tanks, 3000 guns, million shells and main – 58 armored trains – all this can only be transported by rails, and at least 100 trains are required. For tanks and armored trains, even more so, do not carry on boats (such boats (ferries) did not exist yet).

Second question - this is announced mass production (and this is in the conditions of the siege). Tales about the fact that you can release something without having raw materials, materials and, moreover, tools, can only be told to illiterate people! This self-propelled howitzer serves as an example of adaptation for production in conditions of a shortage of materials, and it is a piece goods for the needs of the defense of Leningrad in addition to the 713 tanks produced in addition to the 713 tanks, since it is mounted on the hull of a tank with an engine, tracks and armor.

All this points to constant supply of necessary materials and raw materials … Indeed, in the blockaded city of Leningrad there were no coal mines, iron ore and other deposits to provide the industry with coal, steel, coke, fluxes and other materials!

"Historians" argue that the machines were rotated by hand - this is just a speculation of people who are illiterate in technology: try a machine with a 3-10 kW drive (namely, such drives are used by industrial drilling and lathes) to turn it manually and grind a metal workpiece. You will immediately realize that this is the most common artifice, with your hands it is not something to ensure the required rotation speed, it is simply impossible to turn such a machine!

Historians also argue that the main reason for the increase in working hours was not a heroic impulse to give everything for a common victory, but the lack of electricity. From the works of "historians":

Still, it is interesting - they themselves did not have enough shells or they ferried 3 million shells to the army! Why? Did they have any problems in the blockade? How did they increase the firing range of the guns? Probably, the guns rolled closer ?! This is another example of not just an illiterate presentation and misunderstanding of information, but complete falsification!

The firing range of the gun itself does not increase or decrease, and is initially set by design parameters! Historians should have indicated that they were designed, manufactured, tested and put into service new weapons with an increased firing range. It seems that historians wrote like this, hoping that no one would read or analyze it …

Now let's deal with the production of electricity

On the territory of Leningrad there were five TPP, they were part of the Energy System of the Leningrad Region. Power engineers write about this time like this:

Let's comment on the article a little: since September 1941, the production of electricity has decreased due to the extreme economy regime. By January 1942, the city ran out of coal, thermal power plants practically stopped, and only 3000 kW were produced. At the same time, the Volkhovskaya HPP generated 2000 kW (2 MW), and this was enough only for the railway. node and military units (that is, pay attention to the figure - 2 megawatts is very small on a city scale).

(Wikipedia)

That is, the final figure has been announced: the entire system (more precisely, one thermal power plant on peat plus the Volzhskaya HPP) produced 24 thousand kilowatts until the end of the war. The figure only seems large, but, for example, I will cite that this energy will not be enough for one city (for example, Grodno 338 thousand people) to boil electric kettles at the same time.

In Leningrad, since the spring of 1942, there were 6 tram routes … To ensure this energy consumption, 3.6 thousand kW of electricity (3.6 MW) is required. So that on each route there are 20 trams with a total of 120 (total) with an estimated engine power of 30 (!) KW (for example, modern trams have a capacity of up to 200 kW).

Now a little about materials and production

There is a lot to discuss in history, but the fact remains that shells, mortars, guns and tanks are made of iron or special types of steel. It is known to be a hard material, processed mainly by pressure (it does not matter, with a hammer or a chisel) and requires the application of great efforts (mainly mechanical), especially in mass production. Welding of armor of tanks requires a huge consumption of electricity (this is not a metal body of a car to weld), industrial welding machines have a power of up to 40 kW.

It remains to draw up the electricity balance

The electricity remaining from the movement of trams (20 MW) needs to power the production of factories, and this is:

· Tens of thousands of machine tools, 3-10 kW each (millions of shells, bolts, bushings, dowels, shafts, etc.), - 30-100 MW (this is if 10 thousand machines at all factories);

Dozens of machine tools for the production of cannon barrels (screw-cutting lathes of large sizes), Rolling mills (there are no armor plates without this), · A lot of industrial welding units (after all, they produced 713 tanks in six months, 5 tanks a day), the tank is scalded for more than one day. If we assume that the tank is scalded with one welding unit for three days, then 15 welding units with a total capacity of 600 kW are required.

AND as a result of elementary calculations we get that we do not have enough remaining energy (20 MW), but we also need to provide electricity to the regional committee and city committee of the party, the regional council and city council, the NKVD administration, hospitals, etc.

It remains to draw up the food balance

The need for food in the city was (2 million 544 thousand residents of the city - excluding military groupings, the fleet and residents of the region inside the siege), 1.5 kg of food per day (500 grams of crackers and 1 kg of vegetables and cereals - this is a combined-arms ration) - 3800 tons of food daily (63 modern wagons) - let me remind you that this does not take into account the number of troops and navy and residents of the region.

(everything should have been over by November, and this is taking into account the reduction in consumption by half)

(in 3 months brought food for 2 days … It is not clear why the ammunition was transported, if they were released in Leningrad themselves and transported to the mainland).

(wikipedia) (for another 20 days of food).

(wikipedia) (that is, less than 2000 tons of food was transported per day - this is less than the daily requirement of the city).

The need for food was resolved after almost a million deaths from hunger and the evacuation of another one million 300 thousand refugees for the entire period of action the roads of life.

conclusions

By November, not only coal, but also all supplies of raw materials and materials, food should have run out (which happened). Through austerity, these stocks were stretched until January. The transportation of life along the road in cars with a carrying capacity of 1.5 tons provided only food needs (and even then not completely). It was not disclosed by the "historians" what were 100,000 tons of other cargo brought in the first winter, but this did not cover the needs of the industry (these are thousands and thousands of tons). The industry had to stop.

But factories all worked and worked (it is a fact). It is not known where the additional energy came from (probably the Germans supplied it). Where the resources came from, and how the finished product was shipped, is also unclear.

At the same time, the German command, in order to completely paralyze all the activities of the city, was enough to destroy only 5 power plants (at the initial stage of the war and one after January 1942), which were clearly visible to the spotters of artillery fire from the smoke from the chimneys. Is this another accidental carelessness?

It is completely incomprehensible why 713 KV tanks did not solve the issue of lifting the blockade of Leningrad, because at the beginning of the war we had only 636 KV tanks, and these tanks were not penetrated by German cannons. The simultaneous and massive use of these tanks was supposed to push through any defense with support 3000 released guns (and at the beginning of the war we had only 1,928 guns) and in the absence of ammunition savings. This number of tanks and artillery should have been enough to push the Germans back even to the border.

The given example shows the absence of any logic in our adversary, in our command, and in complete violation of the law of conservation of matter and energy in historical reality.

With history Great Patriotic War we still have to understand and understand. There are many incomprehensible moments in it.

It is not clear what type of weapon the German troops destroyed by the winter of 1941 about 20,000 (twenty thousand) of our tanks, while they themselves had only 4,171 tanks and self-propelled guns.

It is not clear how we lost an even greater part of 104,840 tanks and self-propelled guns produced during the war, while most of the tanks were repaired and returned to battle more than once. Such losses are recorded in real history only once - during the six-day Arab-Israeli war, when Israeli troops destroyed almost two thousand tanks (but then there were ATGMs and another level of jet aircraft).

If there were factories in Leningrad due to the lack of raw materials and materials, everything would be clear - after all, the blockade, and most importantly - to bring food, we will think about production later. But in conditions when people died of hunger on the move and whole families froze to death, it is not clear where the raw materials, materials, tools and units for factories came from (tank guns were made at the Motovilikhinsky plant in Perm, and until February 1942 it was the only plant, which produced tank and ship cannons), and electricity to support production, and the output was shipped to the mainland - this cannot be explained by any fairy tales and myths.

The inhabitants of Leningrad, like the inhabitants of the whole country, performed an unthinkable feat. Many of them gave their lives in battles for their homeland, many died of hunger in Leningrad, bringing the hour of victory closer. The feat of Pavel Korchagin pales against the background of the efforts made every day by the heroes-defenders, the heroes-inhabitants of the besieged city.

Along with this, elementary calculations show that a lot of information from us is simply is hidden, and because of this, the rest is impossible to explain. One gets the impression global betrayalthat this whole blockade was specially organized in such a way as to kill as many people as possible.

The time will come when the true perpetrators will be exposed and condemned, even if in absentia.

Alexey Kungurov