World War II - The Seed Bank

More than one point six million soviet citizens died in a single city in world war too. During the 872 day siege of lenengrad, a port city in northwestern russia to day known as saint petersburg. Hitler was obsessed with securing land for agriculture and improving yields through better seeds. Vavilov and his colleagues believed that the preservation of seed varieties could help the soviet union and the world to develop crops more resistant to droughts and pests.