Day of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the blockade. 71 a year later, Russia has to more actively protect its historical memory.
Lately historical facts related to the events of the Great Patriotic War are so monstrously distorted that every important date and memory of it takes on a special meaning. If a few years ago the victory of the Soviet people, the Red Army in World War II, it seemed, would never be called into question, as the multinational composition of the army units that had fought against the Nazis would never be called into question, today the voices of historical falsifiers are more clearly heard.
One of the recent episodes is the statement by the Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Shetiny that the Ukrainians released the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz-Birkenau). Shetina said that it was the Ukrainians, since the front was called the First Ukrainian. Despite the fact that even in Poland, the words of Shetina were harshly criticized, ironically observing that Christopher Columbus, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, probably considers Colombian, the head of Polish diplomacy himself (a historian by education) continues to stand his ground.
This is far from the first, not the only and, presumably, not the last statement of this kind from Western "friends", and, admittedly, not only from Western ones. On a par with Shetina, you can put Yatsenyuk, who said that Soviet troops, it turns out, invaded the territory of Ukraine and Germany. At the same time, Schetina and Yatsenyuk, making attempts to redraw history, actually contradict each other. All if the Soviet army "invaded Ukraine", then how then did the "Ukrainians liberate the prisoners of Auschwitz" - fled ahead? Really at gunpoint? ..
It would seem, why discuss this nonsense, which under the guise of "facts" are trying to promote foreign politicians? And it is necessary to discuss and evaluate it with the intention that these historical falsifications do not find ground for further growth.
27 January Russia celebrates the Day of the complete liberation of the city of Leningrad from the blockade. This is a day of courage and resilience of people who survived the bombing, shelling, hunger, cold, death of loved ones. This is the day that personifies the reinforced concrete of human will, character, desire for freedom, despite the highest price that had to be paid. It is a day of remembrance, a day of sorrow, but at the same time a day of real national triumph. The triumph of life over death, good over evil - no matter how pathetic it may sound.
However, many of our readers are well aware of the fact that even those who were trying to interpret the history specifically for the Leningrad blockade decided to turn them into an object for frankly dirty discussions in the style of “Was it really necessary to defend Leningrad? Wouldn't it have been easier to pass it, saving the lives of people? ”The poll, as is known, belongs to“ Rain ”. It would seem that the “rainy” team was concerned with how it was possible to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Leningrad residents. But in reality, this is a blatant provocation that tried to cover up the obvious - the surrender of Leningrad according to Hitler’s plans promised a massive extermination of the population, the actual isolation of the strategically important port of Murmansk, and further - the transfer of parts to break through the defense of Moscow.
Before the blockade, the population of Leningrad was about 2,5 million people (together with migrants from the western regions of the country). The population of the city after the 872 siege days is five times less. Someone was able to evacuate thanks to the selfless work of the fighters serving the Road of Life, going through Ladoga to the “big land” on which parts of the Volkhov front stood. According to official statistics, over 650 thousand - died under fire, died from injuries or starvation. It was hunger that took the largest number of residents of the city on the Neva. According to historians, about 630 thousands of Leningrad citizens died of starvation. This is the greatest tragedy of its kind in the history of mankind - the Nazi invaders, together with the Finnish troops and the Spanish divisions of the so-called Blue Division, did everything to make the city simply extinct, becoming a lifeless pile of stone.
Pain, horror, but at the same time hope - in the remarkable, touching to the depths of the soul poem of the poet Yuri Voronov “Blockaded Leningrad”, written in one of the most difficult blockade periods - December 31 1941 of the year:
In Leningrad death sweeps
She's everywhere now
Like the wind.
We do not meet the New Year -
He is invisible in Leningrad.
Houses -
Without light and heat
And endlessly fires near.
Enemy lighters to the ground
Slept
Badayevsky warehouses.
And we
Badayevskaya land
Now sweeten the empty water.
Earth with ash
Land with ash -
Legacy
Lived year.
Blockade troubles have no boundaries:
We faint
Under the rumble,
From our pre-war individuals
Remained
Only the eyes and cheekbones.
And we
Go around the mirror,
To not be afraid of yourself ...
New Year's affairs
The besieged Leningrad ...
Here
Even the match is not superfluous.
And we,
Koptilki igniting,
As people of primitive years
Fire
We carve out of stone.
And quiet shadow
Death now
Crawling on every person.
But still
In the city with us
There will be no
Stone Age!
Who can
Tomorrow will go again
Under the blizzard
On the plants.
… We
do not meet the New Year,
But in the morning we say:
Happy New Year!
The hardest blockade period ... Is it possible for modern man to understand what the tests that befell Leningraders were? Hardly ... 250 grams of bread - for workers, half as much for those who were called dependents. HUNGER took away everything, up to the consciousness and life itself. But the city held on as hard as possible thanks to people who were not going to lose faith.
A remarkable domestic writer, Daniel Granin, a year ago, with his stories about the horrors of besieged Leningrad, shook the Bundestag deputies in real shock.
Video of the performance of Daniel Granin in Berlin:
Today, these words seem incredible to many. But the trouble is that even more than 70 years later, well-known forces are trying to repeat this hellish scenario - already against the residents of Donbass. They do not just try to repeat, but also, demonstrating frankly neo-fascist slogans and actions, try to hide behind certain “international norms”. For the rate of killing women, children, old people, turned inside out compatriots, burned corpses, barriers to humanitarian goods, torture, violence, savagery, artillery strikes at schools, kindergartens and hospitals, other vile things that are difficult to describe in words.
But in the same Bundestag, for the representatives of which last year Daniil Alexandrovich spoke, and today there are still a lot of those who then froze in amazement and dismay at the testimony of the writer-front-line soldier. Astonishment and horror gone? - isn't it, European politicians? Or shutting your ears and closing your eyes, you do not want to see the actual repetition of the Nazi outrage, to which, as you, ladies and gentlemen, declare, "Germany has a constant attitude"? What is your short memory, ladies and gentlemen! .. And how selective your senses are! ..
You have forgotten, but we have not forgotten! And our duty is to preserve the memory of the victims of the Nazi horror and to do everything today so that our ancestors, who laid down their heads in Leningrad, near Moscow and Kursk, Stalingrad and Sevastopol, Minsk and Kiev, Warsaw and Budapest, Vienna and Berlin, were not slandered, and that the blood shed in modern Novorossia should not be turned by the neo-fascist scum into an object for a new satanic dance.
One of the recent episodes is the statement by the Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Shetiny that the Ukrainians released the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz-Birkenau). Shetina said that it was the Ukrainians, since the front was called the First Ukrainian. Despite the fact that even in Poland, the words of Shetina were harshly criticized, ironically observing that Christopher Columbus, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, probably considers Colombian, the head of Polish diplomacy himself (a historian by education) continues to stand his ground.
This is far from the first, not the only and, presumably, not the last statement of this kind from Western "friends", and, admittedly, not only from Western ones. On a par with Shetina, you can put Yatsenyuk, who said that Soviet troops, it turns out, invaded the territory of Ukraine and Germany. At the same time, Schetina and Yatsenyuk, making attempts to redraw history, actually contradict each other. All if the Soviet army "invaded Ukraine", then how then did the "Ukrainians liberate the prisoners of Auschwitz" - fled ahead? Really at gunpoint? ..
It would seem, why discuss this nonsense, which under the guise of "facts" are trying to promote foreign politicians? And it is necessary to discuss and evaluate it with the intention that these historical falsifications do not find ground for further growth.
27 January Russia celebrates the Day of the complete liberation of the city of Leningrad from the blockade. This is a day of courage and resilience of people who survived the bombing, shelling, hunger, cold, death of loved ones. This is the day that personifies the reinforced concrete of human will, character, desire for freedom, despite the highest price that had to be paid. It is a day of remembrance, a day of sorrow, but at the same time a day of real national triumph. The triumph of life over death, good over evil - no matter how pathetic it may sound.
However, many of our readers are well aware of the fact that even those who were trying to interpret the history specifically for the Leningrad blockade decided to turn them into an object for frankly dirty discussions in the style of “Was it really necessary to defend Leningrad? Wouldn't it have been easier to pass it, saving the lives of people? ”The poll, as is known, belongs to“ Rain ”. It would seem that the “rainy” team was concerned with how it was possible to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Leningrad residents. But in reality, this is a blatant provocation that tried to cover up the obvious - the surrender of Leningrad according to Hitler’s plans promised a massive extermination of the population, the actual isolation of the strategically important port of Murmansk, and further - the transfer of parts to break through the defense of Moscow.
Before the blockade, the population of Leningrad was about 2,5 million people (together with migrants from the western regions of the country). The population of the city after the 872 siege days is five times less. Someone was able to evacuate thanks to the selfless work of the fighters serving the Road of Life, going through Ladoga to the “big land” on which parts of the Volkhov front stood. According to official statistics, over 650 thousand - died under fire, died from injuries or starvation. It was hunger that took the largest number of residents of the city on the Neva. According to historians, about 630 thousands of Leningrad citizens died of starvation. This is the greatest tragedy of its kind in the history of mankind - the Nazi invaders, together with the Finnish troops and the Spanish divisions of the so-called Blue Division, did everything to make the city simply extinct, becoming a lifeless pile of stone.
Pain, horror, but at the same time hope - in the remarkable, touching to the depths of the soul poem of the poet Yuri Voronov “Blockaded Leningrad”, written in one of the most difficult blockade periods - December 31 1941 of the year:
In Leningrad death sweeps
She's everywhere now
Like the wind.
We do not meet the New Year -
He is invisible in Leningrad.
Houses -
Without light and heat
And endlessly fires near.
Enemy lighters to the ground
Slept
Badayevsky warehouses.
And we
Badayevskaya land
Now sweeten the empty water.
Earth with ash
Land with ash -
Legacy
Lived year.
Blockade troubles have no boundaries:
We faint
Under the rumble,
From our pre-war individuals
Remained
Only the eyes and cheekbones.
And we
Go around the mirror,
To not be afraid of yourself ...
New Year's affairs
The besieged Leningrad ...
Here
Even the match is not superfluous.
And we,
Koptilki igniting,
As people of primitive years
Fire
We carve out of stone.
And quiet shadow
Death now
Crawling on every person.
But still
In the city with us
There will be no
Stone Age!
Who can
Tomorrow will go again
Under the blizzard
On the plants.
… We
do not meet the New Year,
But in the morning we say:
Happy New Year!
The hardest blockade period ... Is it possible for modern man to understand what the tests that befell Leningraders were? Hardly ... 250 grams of bread - for workers, half as much for those who were called dependents. HUNGER took away everything, up to the consciousness and life itself. But the city held on as hard as possible thanks to people who were not going to lose faith.
A remarkable domestic writer, Daniel Granin, a year ago, with his stories about the horrors of besieged Leningrad, shook the Bundestag deputies in real shock.
Video of the performance of Daniel Granin in Berlin:
Today, these words seem incredible to many. But the trouble is that even more than 70 years later, well-known forces are trying to repeat this hellish scenario - already against the residents of Donbass. They do not just try to repeat, but also, demonstrating frankly neo-fascist slogans and actions, try to hide behind certain “international norms”. For the rate of killing women, children, old people, turned inside out compatriots, burned corpses, barriers to humanitarian goods, torture, violence, savagery, artillery strikes at schools, kindergartens and hospitals, other vile things that are difficult to describe in words.
But in the same Bundestag, for the representatives of which last year Daniil Alexandrovich spoke, and today there are still a lot of those who then froze in amazement and dismay at the testimony of the writer-front-line soldier. Astonishment and horror gone? - isn't it, European politicians? Or shutting your ears and closing your eyes, you do not want to see the actual repetition of the Nazi outrage, to which, as you, ladies and gentlemen, declare, "Germany has a constant attitude"? What is your short memory, ladies and gentlemen! .. And how selective your senses are! ..
You have forgotten, but we have not forgotten! And our duty is to preserve the memory of the victims of the Nazi horror and to do everything today so that our ancestors, who laid down their heads in Leningrad, near Moscow and Kursk, Stalingrad and Sevastopol, Minsk and Kiev, Warsaw and Budapest, Vienna and Berlin, were not slandered, and that the blood shed in modern Novorossia should not be turned by the neo-fascist scum into an object for a new satanic dance.
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