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Great Patriotic War, winter 1941. Food supplies have dried up and supplies have been blocked. Besieged Leningrad was dying of hunger: employees, dependents and children were given 125 g of bread per day. It was then that a gang appeared in the city, engaged in fraud and robbery. The criminals were mainly involved in counterfeiting food cards. The name of their gang – “ZIG ZAG” – stood for “Defenders of the Interests of Germany – Banner of Adolf Hitler.”