Heroism of the Soviet People

• Seven cities earned the title 'hero city' by the end of the war.

  • For having heavy resistance against the Nazis.
• Not a lot of food to go around in Leningrad, freezing cold temperatures and constant German shelling

  800000 died from freezing, starvation and shelling.
• People were forced to carry out dangerous tasks if found refusing to fight, some were even shot on the spot.