“The day of lifting the siege of Leningrad during the WW2 is not just the Leningrad Victory Day. This is the Day of Life”
Press Release, 27.01.2021
Photo by the Yabloko party Press Service
The Yabloko delegation headed by the party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov laid flowers at the monument sign of the hero-city Leningrad in the Alexander Garden in Moscow.
“The day of lifting the siege of Leningrad during the Second World War is not just the Leningrad Victory Day. This is the Day of Life. A day on which one especially needs to remember how valuable and fragile life is. What price Leningrad residents paid for peace and what responsibility lies on us for preserving this peace,” the leader of Yabloko stressed.
The siege of Leningrad was one of the most tragic and heroic episodes of the Second World War. The siege of the city lasted 872 days – from 8 September, 1941 until 27 January, 1944. Over 600,000 residents of Leningrad died during the siege.
NIKOLAI RYBAKOV
is Yabloko party Chairman, member of the Federal Political Committee and member of the Party Bureau. Head of the Yabloko Electoral Headquarters.
Posted: January 27th, 2021 under History, Human Rights.