The horror Siege of Leningrad: How 1.5million people died during Nazi starvation blockade that saw mothers resort to feeding their babies BLOOD and families turn to cannibalism – but Vladimir Putin’s mum survived

A baby sucking blood rather than milk from its mother; a human leg found in a worker’s locker; children ending up stooped and hairy. 

These are scenes that would be at home in the fertile mind of a horror fiction writer.

But, more than 80 years…