January
28, 2024
Montréal
(Special to Informed Comment) – Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1944, people
in the street were hugging each other and weeping with joy. They were
celebrating the end of a nearly 900 days brutal siege. Soviet forces lifted the
siege of Leningrad after ferocious battles. Exactly a year later they liberated
Auschwitz. Even today, walking in Saint-Petersburg’s main avenue, the Nevsky
Prospect, one notices a blue sign painted on a wall during the siege:
“Citizens! This side of the street is the most dangerous during artillery
shelling”.
