Thought this would make more sense in freeing up soldiers for other operations etc
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Because they were genocidal murderers. They wanted to level Leningrad to the ground seeing it as the birth place of the October revolution.
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One reason was because they didn’t want to bother with supplying the citizens with food, so killing them off was easier. The northern flank was also in the hands of the Finns at this point. However they weren’t interested in continuing since they had taken back all the land they had lost in the Winter War, which is really all they cared about thus making the task much harder against stubborn and fortified resistance.
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