Siege Survivors Mark Its 60th Anniversary
From Times Wire Reports
Elderly Russians clutching carnations streamed to a monument in St. Petersburg to mark the 60th anniversary of the 900-day Nazi siege of the city then called Leningrad.
More than 1 million people are estimated to have died during the 1941-44 siege of World War II, but the city never surrendered.
At Saturday’s ceremony, survivors of the blockade, many accompanied by grandchildren, placed flowers at a monument to victims and shared memories of the siege’s winters of starvation.
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