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Samantha Power’s speech on Leningrad siege — the height of cynicism

07/05/2015 by ORIENTAL REVIEW / 1 comment

The permanent representative of the United States to the UN, Samantha Power, speaking at a meeting of the General Assembly on May 5, 2015, cited the diary of Tanya Savicheva, recalling the suffering of the girl during the siege of Leningrad in 1941-1944. Below is the comment by Maria Zakharova, […]

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Leningrad the Unconquered

31/01/2014 by ORIENTAL REVIEW / 2 comments

By early September of 1941 advancing German troops had cut off the rail lines leading to Leningrad. By Sept. 8 the city had been completely surrounded and a blockade began that was unprecedented in modern history in both its length and its disastrous effects. Leningrad’s situation was extraordinarily difficult right […]

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Photos of besieged Leningrad 1941-1944 (in memoriam)

27/01/2014 by ORIENTAL REVIEW / 2 comments

On January 27 Russia marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad (today’s St.Petersburg), which lasted for 872 days and cost more than 1 million lives of the residents of the besieged city, having to overcome hunger, cold and bombings, and 1 more million soldiers and […]

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