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Rhiannon12866

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1. I've been to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). There are statues and plagues dedicated to that war

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Oct 10, 2021, 11:23 PM

Oct 2021

And and memorializing the war dead all over. Leningrad was particularly horrific since they were cut off and thousands starved. There are museums in schools teaching the next generations about the horrors of that war - and plagues in schools as memorials to the former students killed in the war. I visited many of these places as part of a peace group with my grandmother shortly before the USSR fell. The Russian people want to remember that war so it never happens again.

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I've been to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). There are statues and plagues dedicated to that war Rhiannon12866 Oct 2021 #1