German troops seize the town of Klin, bringing the panzers astride the main highway from Moscow to the north. With Rostov fallen, Leningrad besieged, and Moscow threatened, the Soviet Union is in great danger. In Leningrad, everything from food to electrical power is in short supply. Factories lack electricity, and exhausted workers man lathes driven by bicycle wheels. The sewage system breaks down under German shellfire.
Workers seek anything consumable to be turned into food.
Dust from flour mills is swept up and bagged. Yeast is turned into soup. Soup is turned into jelly. Horses that collapse are slaughtered on the spot. Seaweed is turned into broth.