Siege of Leningrad

Siege of Leningrad.  Pointed out in the Yale food course in the lecture on starvation.  In the rationing, manual laborers were given about 700 calories per day.  Non-manual laborers around 400.   Citizens recalled that the paste to put up wallpaper was made of potatoes.  Wallpaper was stripped off walls, and the dry paste was scraped into pots and boiled into soup.  Leather as well.  This was by the end of the first year.  The siege lasted another 1.5 years.  Then the cannibalism began.  After the corpses were eaten, children began disappearing.  The government made it illegal to sell fresh meat.  Over 1 million deaths by starvation.  1.5-3 million overall.  After the siege was lifted, it was formally illegal to speak of the cannibalism that took place during the siege.