Looking, it was at the end of S1 that Elizabeth's father was supposed to have died there. That wasn't the first time the battle was mentioned either.

Obviously - to me - you trade sex for food if you're starving.

The Leningrad leadership got shot after the war because they a) it was Leningrad and Stalin never liked the place and b) he was jealous of the way they were rightly seen as heroes, to the point that someone declared their efforts during the siege were "a myth designed by anti-Soviet traitors trying to diminish the greatness of comrade Stalin."