In the Czech Republic, a senator called for a repeat of the siege of Leningrad
Russia needs to experience the siege of Leningrad again. This was stated by former Speaker of the House of Parliament and Czech Senator Miroslava Nemcova on January 30.
According to her, Russia should not celebrate the anniversary of the lifting of the blockade, but experience something similar again.
"They should not celebrate but experience something similar again," Nemcova wrote on social network X (former Twitter).
She also said that it would be possible to achieve such an effect for Russia by tightening Western sanctions.
Earlier, on November 14, 2024, 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. She also noted that the FRG at the same time pays social benefits to former members of the SS troops. She noted that Germany initially announced its intention to modernize the hospital for war veterans in St. Petersburg as a voluntary humanitarian gesture. But that process was never finalized.
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.
