During the brutal fighting on the Eastern front during the Second World War, the city of Leningrad was put under siege. Soviet citizens had to endure freezing temperatures, starvation, disease, and cannibalism to survive. In the midst of this suffering, a small enclave of Soviet scientists did what they could to protect a massive collection of seeds in order to save countless future human lives.
Music:
-Holding Pattern by Loscil
-Phantom Brickworks II by Bibio
-Boy 1904 by Alex Somers & Jonsi
-Carousel #3 by Federico Albanese
-Chord Left by Agnes Obel
-Prelude for Piano and Malaria by Worrytrain
-Inventions by Slow Breathing Circuit
-Four Windows by Jason Hill
-The Trenches Choir by Worrytrain
-On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter
-Katrina Outtake by Matthew Robert Cooper
-X-Ray by Youth Lagoon
-Seventh Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich
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