Taking you back to the Second World War

The Soviet Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan sent fruit, nuts, rice, and confectionery. Fihy wagons with food arrived from Tajikistan. Karelia’s fishermen and livestock breeders sent fish and 100 reindeer. Kirghizia sent a trainload of flour, meat, butter, dried fruit, and tobacco; and Kazakhstan dispatched 77 wagons with various goods. Forty-three wagons with New Year gifts arrived in Leningrad from as far away as the Pacific coast. People in the city of Omsk in Siberia sent three trainloads of warm clothes. Although the food situation was difficult, people throughout the country considered it their duty to give the best they had to the Leningraders, who were suffering the most.