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Solemn meeting of Leningrad siege survivors in Vitebsk

Solemn meeting of Leningrad siege survivors in Vitebsk
27 Jan 2015

Over 30 Leningrad siege survivors took part in a solemn meeting in Vitebsk to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Nazi siege of Leningrad during World War II. During a solemn meeting the Leningrad siege survivors and former children of war had a possibility to tell the younger generation about the horrors of war and how they managed to survive in that cold, hunger, and constant shelling.

92-year-old war veteran Vasily Gordeenko paints a portrait of the Marshal Zhukov
War veteran Nina Telesh
Commemorative meeting at the burial place of the Italian soldiers and officers in the Borok area
The nationwide patriotic action We Remember and We Are Proud in Grodno
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