Putin and Lukashenko opened a memorial to the victims of the Great Patriotic War in the Leningrad region
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko took part in the opening ceremony of a memorial in memory of civilians who died during the Great Patriotic War. This is reported on website Kremlin. The memorial is located in the village of Zaitsevo, Gatchina district, Leningrad region.
The opening of the memorial is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the siege. The ceremony was attended by officials, public figures, as well as 80 descendants of residents of the besieged city and military personnel who participated in lifting the siege. During the Great Patriotic War, camps for prisoners of war and concentration camps for children were located on the territory of the Gatchina region.
Vladimir Putin said that of the total number of deaths during the Great Patriotic War, more than half were civilians. “And this is convincing proof that the Nazis and their satellites did not fight against a political regime or ideology. Their goal was the richest natural resources, the territories of our country and the physical destruction of the majority of citizens. They have prepared for the rest the role of slaves, deprived of their native culture, traditions and language,” the president said (quoted by TASS).
Alexander Lukashenko, on behalf of the citizens of Belarus, thanked for the creation of the memorial in Gatchina.
The design of the memorial complex was created by sculptor Andrei Korobtsov and architect Konstantin Fomin in 2022. It was approved by Leningrad veterans, former concentration camp prisoners and members of the Russian Academy of Arts.
The monument is a stele. At its top there is a figure of a mother with children. The height of the central sculpture is 47 m. The memorial also includes 150 sculptural bas-reliefs created based on the stories of real people.
The siege of Leningrad began on September 8, 1941. It lasted almost 900 days. The only route by which food came to the city was along the ice of Lake Ladoga. The blockade was broken on January 18, 1943. The blockade of the city was completely lifted on January 27, 1944.
About the blockade of Leningrad – in the material “We stood to the death by the dark Neva”.
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