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it became illegal to sell any form of ground meat in the city,
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as the sources became too horrifically questionable.
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In one case, the bones of several dozen children
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were found inside the apartment of a concert violinist;
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even his own five year old son was missing.
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The Leningrad police formed a special division to combat cannibalism.
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By the beginning of 1944 as even corpses and children became scarce
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there were reports of people cutting off their own body parts
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and eating them in a desperate attempt to stave off hunger.
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The Red Army broke through the German lines on January 27, 1944
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and the siege was lifted.
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In all, a million Soviets had starved to death in that city,