MOSCOW, Jan 18The blockade of Leningrad remains a «blind spot» for residents of many countries, this topic could sound with renewed vigor for a Western audience if directors like Steven Spielberg or Oliver Stone turned to it, a member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Rights told RIA Novosti (HRC) Alexander Brod. The blockade of Leningrad, which lasted from September 8, 1941, was broken during the offensive operation of the Soviet troops on January 18, 1943. The blockade of Leningrad is one of the most tragic pages of the Great Patriotic War, but these are also heroic pages, noted Brod, because the city lived, worked, resisted in conditions of hunger, shelling. «For those who were born and raised during the Soviet Union, these events are more than understandable, they have been written and talked about a lot. Young people are no longer aware of them, they affect gaps in our education, mass culture.I hope that these days, thanks to teachers, TV channels, the pages of the Blockade Book by Granin and Adamov will come to life ich, blockade poems and diaries of Olga Berggolts. Feature films and documentaries from previous years about the blockade should be shown,» Brod told RIA Novosti. New films, studies, books will surely appear, he believes. «/>September 8, 2021, 11:05 Siege of Leningrad: the worst 872 days in the history of the city — stressed a member of the HRC. The blockade of Leningrad, which began on September 8, 1941, lasted almost 900 days. The only way, the «Road of Life», through which food was delivered to the city, was laid on the ice of Lake Ladoga. The blockade was broken on January 18, 1943, but before it was completely lifted — on January 27, 1944 — Leningraders had to wait another whole year. During the years of the blockade, according to various sources, from 400 thousand to 1.5 million people died. So, the number of 632 thousand people appeared at the Nuremberg trials. Only 3% of them died from bombing and shelling, the rest died of starvation. Letters from a German about the siege of Leningrad published
