"Borderland" tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongols invaded from the east, and for the next seven centureies, Ukraine was split between warring neighbors: Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Austrians, and T[...]

On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.
Anna Reid[...]

Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongols invaded from the east, and for the next seven centuries, Ukraine was split between warring neighbors: Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Austrians, and Tata[...]

Historien om en av andre verdenskrigs verste grusomheter.Da Hitler igangsatte sitt angrep på Sovjetunionen i juni 1941, var planen å erobre Leningrad, for deretter å ta Moskva. Den sovjetiske motstanden tvang ham til å endre mening, og tyskerne bestemte seg i stedet for å sulte byen ut. Innbygg[...]

Den 8 september 1941. Bara elva veckor efter att Hitler drog igång Operation Barbarossa, det brutala överraskningsanfallet mot Sovjetunionen, hade tyskarna omringat Leningrad. Belägringen skulle inte hävas förrän efter två och ett halvt år och under de 872 dagar som blockaden och bombardema[...]