Russia is demanding that Germany recognize the Second World War siege of Leningrad not just as a war crime, but as genocide. The Russian Foreign Ministry sent a relevant diplomatic communication to the German Foreign Ministry, as reported by the Russian state news agency TASS. In the communication, Germany is criticized for “contradictory handling” of the past. “German crimes of the colonial era are recognized as genocide, but not the crimes of the Nazis against the peoples of the Soviet Union during the Second World War,” the statement said. “The Russian side insists on officially recognizing such atrocities of the Third Reich as genocide,” it added. During the nearly 900-day siege of the northern Russian city of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, by the Wehrmacht and its allies in 1941-1944, an estimated 1.1 million people lost their lives. Countless civilians died of hunger or cold. “The Siege of Leningrad was a terrible war crime by the German Wehrmacht against Leningrad and […]
Source: News Beast
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