Today Vladimir Putin has a great program in St. Petersburg. But first of all, the president went to the Piskarevskoye cemetery, to the monument to the Motherland. Photo: Alexander Demyanchuk/TASS
Today Vladimir Putin has a great program in St. Petersburg. But first of all, the president went to the Piskarevskoye cemetery, to the monument to the Motherland. The Russian leader knelt in front of a large mourning wreath with ribbons in the colors of the Russian tricolor. There he honored the memory of not only hundreds of thousands of Leningraders who died of starvation and German shelling during the blockade.
Here are the relatives of the head of the country. He himself mentioned it before:
“Mom told how she got to her father in the hospital. They had a little boy, he was three years old. And the hunger, the blockade… And her father gave her her hospital ration. Secretly from doctors and nurses. And she hid him, took him home and fed the child. Well, then she began to faint in the hospital, the doctors understood everything and stopped letting her in, ”said the president.
“And then they took the child away. They did this in secret order to save the children from starvation. Picked up in orphanages for evacuation. Parents were not even asked. She fell ill there and did not survive. And they didn’t even tell them where he was buried. So people I didn’t know worked on the archives and found documents for my brother.
And this is really my brother. It wasn’t just the address where they got it from that matched. Matching name, surname, patronymic, year of birth. And the burial place was indicated: the Piskarevskoye cemetery and even a specific site, ”he added.
The laying of wreaths is just the beginning of the presidential program in the city. Today he will also hold a meeting with the head of St. Petersburg. And then he will communicate with the veterans and survivors of the blockade.
In the end, the Russian leader plans to meet with workers at the Obukhov plant. The company is part of the Almaz-Antey holding company and produces combat missiles for the army.
