About the book: 2015 / According to the Barbarossa plan developed in July - December 1940, the fate of Leningrad was predetermined: to wipe it off the face of the earth. Document 114 from the “Fuhrer’s Main Apartment” states: “... the capitulation of Leningrad, and later of Moscow, should not be accepted even if it were proposed by the enemy...” The German troops, rapidly advancing towards Leningrad, were stopped at the Luga line for 45 days . The great battle for the city on the Neva began, ending with a victorious Salute in January forty-four…