Fans of St. Petersburg FC Zenit dedicated a large-scale action to two “blockade” dates (video)

The Landskrona movement, an association of fans of the St. Petersburg football club Zenit, held a “large-scale action” dedicated to two memorable dates in the history of the city on the Neva – the breaking of the fascist blockade of Leningrad on January 18, 1943 and the complete lifting of the blockade on January 27, 1944.

The action “was held on Nevsky Piglet, a bridgehead with which the history of the battle for Leningrad is inextricably linked,” Landskron said in a message on the VKontakte social network.

It is noted that “a fiery chain of fireworks on one bank and volleys of salutes on the other (were organized) in memory of those who fought for Shlisselburg, drowned in peat bogs, froze in the snow, those who passed here then, through that Neva.”

The action ended with the laying of flowers at the memorial Stone.

Recall that from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Leningrad was blocked by German troops. The Nazis decided to starve the city out after unsuccessful attempts to break through the defenses. According to the calculations of the German command, the isolated inhabitants had to die of hunger and cold. More than two and a half million inhabitants turned out to be in the city, of which 400 thousand children. The blockade lasted almost 900 days and became the most tragic blockade in the history of mankind: more than 641 thousand people died from starvation and shelling. According to other sources – at least one million.

On January 18, 1943, the troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts liberated the city of Shlisselburg and the southern coast of Lake Ladoga. Operation Iskra was a turning point in the battle for the city, and the breakthrough of the blockade was the first big victory for Leningrad. The city restored overland communication with the mainland.