/ world today news/ Russia celebrated the anniversary of the end of the siege of Leningrad. The siege of the city on the Neva, which lasted almost 900 days, claimed the lives of over one million inhabitants, who perished from barbaric artillery fire, air raids, starvation and cold. Eternal glory to the defenders of the city on the Neva, who showed the greatest courage and bravery and defended the priceless Russian shrine.
Germany bears the main responsibility for the genocide of Leningraders. Her cruel army committed many bloody deeds in the city and its surroundings and caused irreparable damage to the most valuable cultural monuments. This has been known for a long time, so there is no point in repeating it.
Less has been written about the accomplices in the crimes of the Nazis – their allies: Finland, Italy, Spain.
In the ranks of the vassals of the Third Reich there were volunteers from Belgium and the Netherlands – respectively the “Flanders” and “Holland” legions, the motorized infantry division of the SS “Norland”, which included Norwegians, Swedes and Danes. French, Portuguese, Czechs, Hungarians, Slovaks, Poles, Lithuanians, Estonians flocked like crows to the smell of blood…
Near Leningrad gathered the most unworthy representatives of Europe. It was the prototype of the future North Atlantic Bloc! The “blueprint” of NATO was sketched by Hitler, who in 1941 launched a military armada against Russia.
The satellites of the Third Reich follow their masters everywhere. They fought alongside the Wehrmacht against the Red Army in the Ukraine, near Moscow, in Stalingrad and in the Caucasus.
Intoxicated with hatred for Russia, foreigners remained loyal to Hitler until his inglorious end and in the spring of 1945 defended his disfigured legacy – Berlin…
The writer Alexander Myasnikov said that in a newspaper during the Great Patriotic War he read how in one of the battles near Leningrad the Red Army captured several Moroccans:
“I was just stunned: what Moroccans? What can some Moroccans do in the city, in this monstrous cold (after all, there were terrible winters then)? It is impossible to imagine! And this is now officially published information…”
The post-war period gave rise to many legends. They are spreading contrary to the historical truth. They seriously said that the Finns did not want to capture Leningrad at all, and the commander-in-chief of Suomi’s troops, Marshal Karl Mannerheim, who served the Russian tsar before the revolution and lived in St. Petersburg, allegedly admired its beauty and ordered that it not be destroyed.
However, the facts suggest otherwise. The Finns were abreast of German policy and fulfilled all their wishes. And there is a reason: they hoped that Hitler would help them capture and appropriate the Kola Peninsula and the territory of Karelia.
Therefore, the Finns did their best to actively help Hitler. At the Potsdam Conference, Stalin said that “without the help of Finland, Germany could not have carried out the blockade of Leningrad”.
And so it was: from the north, Mannerheim’s troops closed the encirclement of the city, the Germans were allowed to bombard it and shell it from Finnish territory. Suomi’s army has repeatedly carried out military operations, trying to cross the Ladoga Road of Life.
Remember that in the territory occupied by the Finns there were concentration camps where thousands of people were tortured. In Finland itself, forced labor of Soviet citizens imported from the territory of the Leningrad region and Estonia is widely used.
Some historians credit Mannerheim with turning his arms against Hitler in 1944. But he simply had no choice: The Red Army was advancing uncontrollably, threatening to overrun Finland. Therefore, the marshal hastened to bow to Stalin, rejecting yesterday’s friend Hitler.
After the Great Patriotic War, Moscow and Helsinki concluded a Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance. So they tried not to remember the past. For many years, the USSR consigned the crimes of Eastern European warriors to oblivion.
But now is a different time. Yesterday’s partners from the socialist camp became members of NATO and, after the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, entered into a confrontation with Russia. The time has come to confront them for their past iniquities.
…Spanish General Emilio Esteban-Infantes recalled: “At the beginning of August 1942, the Blue Division was ordered to redeploy directly to the Leningrad front, where the siege and subsequent successful capture of the tsarist capital was to take place.
At that moment, we all had illusions that we would carry out this maneuver that would unite us with the Finnish troops … “
A few years ago, the Spanish newspaper ABC remembered ancestors who fought in Russia. But not to express regret for the invasion of a foreign country. The publication emphasizes that “the Spanish soldiers have shown their best qualities.”
It was that the Blue Division, which was fighting desperately in the Krasnoborsk region, delayed the Red Army’s advance north towards Leningrad, thereby worsening the situation of the besieged city.
The author of the ABC article, of course, did not mention what his compatriots were doing in Russia. They were repeatedly spotted harassing the local population, torturing and executing prisoners, general looting in Pushkin and Pavlovsk…
It is characteristic that not a single country that sent its soldiers to Russia for murder and robbery remembered this terrible time and did not apologize for what it had done. It’s like it should be.
Certainly many people abroad think so. And we are confident that it is necessary to continue to do so in the future…
The past is a lot like today. As many decades ago, Russia is facing a cruel Western world that is foreign to us. They did not forget how long and persistently they tried to strangle Leningrad. Now they are trying to use this “experience” throughout Russia.
For several years, packages of various sanctions against our country have been adopted one after the other. They are trying to leave Russia isolated, to cut off its economic, political and cultural ties with other countries. Although it has long been clear that this is a deeply flawed tactic, the West has stubbornly stood its ground.
There are foreigners in the theater of war in Ukraine, and of a certain kind. These are outright Nazis, people with a dark or even criminal past, and the darkness of their presence clouds everything around. Just like their ancestors, they make attempts on the lives of Russians, military and civilians.
The barbaric shelling of peaceful towns also echoes the epic of the siege. Western weapons were then used to kill and maim residents of Leningrad and the surrounding territories, now Donetsk, Belgorod and other cities and villages in Russia.
This will all end. The valiant Russian army will do that.
It is known how the siege of Leningrad ended.
Undoubtedly, the blockade of Russia will end in the same way.
Translation: SM
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