Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich, who spent almost all his life in Petersburg, was one of the most important composers of the Soviet Union and one of the world's most famous composers of the 20th century.

In 1919 he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory to study piano and composition; In 1923 and 1925, he graduated from piano and composition majors, and became famous for his performance of the first symphony of his graduation work. In 1927 he won a prize at the Chopin Piano Competition.

When the Great Patriotic War began, he began the composition of the Seventh Symphony in St. Petersburg, which was besieged by Germany, and it took only three months to complete it, after which the Seventh Symphony became famous all over the world.

And now, much like history, he is still in Petersburg, still composing his own symphonies, and his whole life is immersed in the sea of music.

However, his life is coming to an end.

Fifteen thousand meters in the air, lightning bombers.

At such heights, it was absolutely safe, and the air defense forces of Petersburg below, as soon as they spotted them, opened heavy fire.

It's just that, for them, it's like a child's play.

The shells of those anti-aircraft guns did not exceed 10,000 meters at the highest, and at the current flight altitude, the shells of those anti-aircraft guns exploded far below their own side, and the black smoke looked spectacular, but in fact there was no threat.

"Flying over Petersburg on the fly, ready to drop bombs." Janssen, who was mainly a navigator and bombardier, began to fiddle with the high-precision bombing sights in front of him, and it was the first time that he dropped a bomb at an altitude of 15,000 meters.

Moreover, they carry ordinary bombs, in addition to the significance of the first fall, in fact, there is not much effect, the main force of the bombing, you have to look at the Junkers-290 bombers behind.

However, this significance is significant, in the case of jet fighters before the war, the German jet bomber, for the first time into the bombing of the ground, it created many firsts, the highest altitude, the fastest speed, the farthest bomb and so on.

A few minutes earlier, the bombing sights had begun to work on the ground, and now, following the prompts of the bombing sights, Janssen pressed the button.

The bomb bay in the belly of the plane opened, and one bomb after another, falling out of the belly, glided along a parabola.

"Finished throwing."

Klegel pushed the lever and made a wide-angle turn in the airspace ahead, and their mission was over, and they began to return home!

This is also a test, which shows that our jet bomber is already a fully mature product, which can be finalized and produced at any time and put into actual combat.

The bombs in the sky swayed downward, and the crowd on the ground shouted in horror: "Here it is, here the Germans are coming!" ”

Until now, no one knows how the terrible bomb of the Germans worked, and it can only be speculated based on the results of the bombing, which has high heat, great pressure, and at the same time depletes the oxygen in the surrounding air and suffocates people.

Well, there are ways to deal with such bombs, for example, it is useless to hide in the basement, because the air is gone, it is even more unsafe on the ground, and a huge shock wave will grind people into pulp.

Well, the best thing to do is to take a sharp breath and jump into the water, if you can hold it in the water for five minutes, then after coming up again, the oxygen should have been restored.

Ordinary people can't do it, after all, it's good to hold it for three minutes, and now, they need to challenge their limits.

Fortunately, the city of St. Petersburg is very good, there is water everywhere, and after seeing the bombs that fell from the sky, the citizens no longer crowded the streets, and they would have died miserably.

They jumped into the water and jumped into the water more than a meter deep, it was still very cold, they were shivering in the water, and when they saw that the bomb was about to land, they all stuck their heads in the water.

It is also strange to say that how to deal with such a bomb, the official Soviet never made a statement, and it is not known how it came out, in short, everyone knew this way.

The streets that had just been crowded were empty, and the whole river was full of human heads, and their eyes were full of horror as the bombs were falling, and then, taking a deep breath, they plunged into the water.

"Boom!" The bomb fell on the street and there was a violent explosion, which made the people in the water even more afraid, none of them dared to come out, and the sound coming from the water was even more deafening.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Bombs exploded one after another, and Petersburg, a city full of Soviet glory, ushered in the most terrifying scene.

Time passed little by little, and finally, a resident who couldn't hold his breath first showed his head, he opened his eyes, looked at everything around him, and couldn't believe it.

Didn't the Germans say they were going to blow up the city? Like Exeter once was, and now?

The nearby streets were burning, which was left by the explosion of the bomb, but it was just an ordinary bomb, and it was not very powerful at all, and it was impossible to completely destroy the entire city.

Ill hearings makes ill rehearsing!

Not many people have been to Exeter, and the tragic situation in Exeter is well known. It seems that the Germans did not have that terrible weapon at all, they were all scared, thinking that in this way they would be able to frighten the people of Petersburg?

Thinking of this, he puffed out his chest, as if he had forgotten how scared he had been to jump into the water in the first place.

Conservatory.

The rumbling explosions outside did not stop Shostakovich, his nimble hands slid over the keys, and the long tune came out.

The sound drifted out of the classroom, over the entire conservatory, over Petersburg.

No matter how ferocious the Germans were, the Soviets would not give in, and they were convinced that in the end they would win!

At an altitude of 10,000 meters, the Junkers-290 bombers were in the sky, lined up in a neat bombing formation, and they were about to carry out a bombing that will go down in history.

On one of the bombers at the front of the formation, Commander Exeter looked up and watched the jet bomber fly past his own side.

The credit for the first bomb was snatched away by the bomber, although they took off later, relying on the fast flight speed, they bombed first, and now, the other party flew at an altitude of 15,000 meters, which made Exeter also envious.

Trying to calm his mind, he shouted over the radio: "Attention, enter the countdown to the bombing, five minutes to prepare." ”