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, […]
Tag: Siege of Leningrad
Leningrad the Unconquered
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 […]
Photos of besieged Leningrad 1941-1944 (in memoriam)
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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Andrew KORYBKO 
Vladislav SOTIROVIC 
M. K. BHADRAKUMAR 
Binoy KAMPMARK 
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