Survivors of the second world war from St. Petersburg started a video blog about life in besieged Leningrad
And it is really worth a look.
Channel Sergey Vladimirovich Berezovsky until just two weeks, but it has signed up more than 6 thousand people. In the first three videos pensioner reminisces about his life in the time of the siege of Leningrad, in particular, and of the appalling diet:
Ordinary belts were boiled in gelatin, there were added a Bay leaf, pepper, some saffron, something that nobody wants, and what each family had in abundance. This jelly was frozen and ate.
Last week on channel Sergei Vladimirovich had two new video — “the man from the Gestapo” and “Leningrad after the war”.