Russia has a selective memory!

IRINA MIROCHNIK

Putin: “Russia, not wanting to spoil international relations, never reminded that the blockade of Leningrad was carried out by military personnel from many European countries.”

What kind of selective memory does Russia have!

Stalin on the radio on July 3, 1941: “When the Red Army units are forced to withdraw, do not leave the enemy a kilogram of bread or a liter of fuel.”

And so they did.

But it was impossible to take out all the food, so that the ancestors of those who unleashed this war today would eat it?

On December 9, 1941, at the height of the famine, not even the secretary, but the instructor of the city committee, Nikolai Ribkovsky, wrote in his diary: “Yesterday I ate green cabbage soup with sour cream for the first, a cutlet with vermicelli for the second, and today for the first soup with vermicelli, for the second pork with stewed cabbage.

At the beginning of March 1942, Ribkovsky was sent to the so-called “inpatient hospital of the party city committee”: “Food is like in peacetime in a good rest home. Meat – lamb, ham, chicken, goose, turkey, sausage; fish – bream, herring, smelt, and fried, and boiled, and jellied caviar, salmon, cheese, pies, cocoa, coffee, tea, 300 grams of white and the same amount of black bread per day, 30 grams of butter and all this, 50 grams of grape wine, good port wine to lunch and dinner.”

The entry dated March 5 ends with the delightful phrase: “Yes. Such a rest in the conditions of a long blockade of the city is possible only among the Bolsheviks, only under Soviet power.”

Is it necessary to say that there was no complete blockade? All these years there was a corridor to the city along Lake Ladoga. In winter – ice, in summer – sea transport.

… Why such victims? Because the Holodomor, in which the Kremlin knew a lot, having tested it in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, the Volga region, the Southern Urals, etc.

Water transport was plentiful. There were no mass shellings during this period that would not allow supplying Leningrad. But very few products were deliberately imported into the city in the first year, these draconian norms of 125 grams were specially, artificially invented, while the nomenklatura pigs gorged themselves on delicacies, looking from the windows of their luxurious apartments at the corpses on the streets, who died a painful, starvation death of people.

Much more can be said about the “brilliantly” organized evacuation, about the robbery of the population, forced to give up their last valuables in exchange for a piece of bread, about repression …

As a result, the free-thinking city turned into a place of human suffering, where people could only think about how to survive. Where people were reduced to the state of animals. Where people ate people.

This is another unpunished crime stupid, cowardly and bloodthirsty conscience of power.

But why is it true?

Today’s fascists need history as a tool to strengthen their cannibalistic order. And to this day, the terrible tragedy of Leningrad continues to be one of the main topics for vile speculation among the Kremlin lice.

[Writer Irina Mirochnik is the President at IMMER Group & Doctor of Philosophy in Law(PhD)]

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