Beglov responds to Nemtsova who suggested "repeating the siege of Leningrad"

The call of Czech Senator Miroslava Nemcova "to repeat the siege of Leningrad" is insulting to the memory of a million victims of the siege. Thus, the politician recognized herself as an heiress of Nazi atrocities, St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov spoke out on February 1.

That Nemtsova published in social network X such a statement was reported on January 30. At the moment, the senator's profile does not have this post, but users of the platform still have the corresponding screenshots. Nemtsova herself called them fake.

"We do not know where the ancestors of the Czech politician, who allowed herself to insult the memory of a million victims of the Leningrad blockade, were in that war. Did they keep our city in a ring of fire for 900 days and nights and were preparing, according to Hitler's directive, to wipe Leningrad off the face of the earth with all its beauty?" - Beglov told RIA Novosti.

He also recalled that the Prague operation ended on May 11, 1945, already after the victory over fascism, and 12 thousand Soviet soldiers lost their lives in it. In addition, the governor expressed regret that Czech fighters against fascism did not react to the politician's statement and did not demand her resignation.

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Earlier, on November 14, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the German authorities stubbornly refuse to recognize the siege of Leningrad and other atrocious crimes of the Nazis on the territory of the Soviet Union as genocide of the peoples of the USSR.

The siege of Leningrad began on September 8, 1941. It lasted 872 days and claimed the lives of more than 1 million people. It was possible to break through the Nazi ring, which had tightened around the city, at the sixth attempt thanks to the operation "Spark". The only way to deliver food to the besieged city was the Road of Life, laid on the ice of Ladoga. On January 27, 1944 the blockade was completely lifted.