As an aside, why is it that the battle of Stalingrad gets all the attention (books, movies, etc.), but the siege of Leningrad is mostly ignored?
~4 million(!) casualties (dead, wounded) on both sides.
Maybe because a lot of the story was always written to support the Stalinist view of the fight. Leningrad’s suffering was beyond horrible, but it wasn’t necessarily heroic. And it was a consequence of Stalin’s collaboration with Hitler.