Tuhia he whakamāramatanga mō tēnei wāhanga - Ko te Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, a Dmitri Shostakovich, i tapaina ko Leningrad, i tīmata i Leningrad, i oti i te taone o Samara (i mohiotia ko Kuybyshev i taua wā) i te marama o Tihema 1941, ā, i whakatangihia i taua taone i te 5 o Poutu-te-rangi 1942. I te tīmatanga i whakatapua ki a Lenin, i te mutunga ka tukuna hei whakahonore i te taone nui o Leningrad, i reira i whakatangihia ai i raro i nga ahuatanga kino i te Akuhata 9, 1942, i te wa o te whakapae a nga Tiamana me nga Finnish
ngā kaha. Kaore i roa ka rongonui te "Leningrad" i te Soviet Union me te Hauauru hei tohu o te aukati ki te fascism me te totalitarianism, he mihi ki te waahanga o te kaitito ki te microfilming o te kaute i Samara me tana tuku muna, ma Tehran me Cairo, ki New York, i reira Arturo Toscanini i arahi i tetahi whakaaturanga pouaka whakaata (19 Hurae 1942) me te maheni "Time" i whakanohoia a Shostakovich ki tona uhi. Ko taua rongonui i heke iho i muri i te 1945, engari kei te whakaarohia tonu te mahi hei tohu puoro nui ki nga 27 miriona taangata Soviet i mate i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, a he maha nga wa e whakatangihia ana i te Whare Whakapapa o Leningrad, kei reira te hawhe miriona patunga o te 900-ra o Leningrad kua tanumia.