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		pjc50 on Aug 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japan police: Nearly 4k who died alone at home not... The Siege of Leningrad killed 1.5 million people, roughly half the population of the city, over a period of roughly two years.

Qem on Aug 30, 2024 [–]

The survivors cohort left to rebuild probably was not composed mostly of retirement-age people.

lostlogin on Aug 30, 2024 | [–]

It was also a vicious dictatorship, and the live tended to stay alive longer if they did what they were told.

A feature of St Petersburg is the weather. It helped keep the place sanitary when corpses just froze.

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