Mangas Coloradas

I've never seen these before so I want to share them. Some are perhaps a little graphic but nothing gory. Some of those people look to be in pretty good health for the conditions at the time.

Have a look.

68 Years Since The Siege Of Leningrad | English Russia

Belloc

Wow - powerful pictures. Thanks for sharing.

vid

Wonderful pictures, many thanks.

PS: Interesting how "Kill a German" is translated as "kill fascist"...

Belgarion

Facinating photos. Some of the signs pointing out air raid shelters are still visible on the walls of buildings on the Nevsky Prospekt, the wide main street in many of the photos.

irishcrusader95

you should look up Elena Martilla sketches of the siege which she drew as she saw them. one can also not gain an understanding of the siege just from pictures as you have to read the accounts of what it was like to gain a full appreciation of it. i often wonder how the people around me would react to such a circumstance as they either become monsters or fight bravely to retain there humanity.

i'm always greatly touched by the story of when years latter Elena was invited to an expedition in Berlin to show her sketches and for the first time she saw them on full display. there was some elderly men there and she said you could tell that they had been at the siege. she showed a group of them around and answered there questions on conditions in the city, at the end they stopped. 'they just stood there with tears in there eyes, Elena recalled, and then one of them stepped forward. 'i ask for your forgiveness' he said. 'none of this was necessary from a military point of view. we tried to destroy you but we destroyed ourselves as human beings. on behalf of all of us i ask for your forgiveness'. 'war is terrible' she replied 'but my quarrel is with fascism, not the german people, and facisem exists in us all'

Mangas Coloradas

I think that it says a lot about Russian character. They're tough, resilient people worthy of admiration and can serve as an example to us all in times of adversity. The people of Leningrad can show the people around you and me how to behave in such a situation. I have heard things that are hard for me to handle, grand parents giving their last food to their grand children, in the face of death. I look through the pictures and all those kids seem healthy, many of the adults do not.


I do think that inside we are all capable of this.

Lors

What did you expect from a Russian translators?

Attilio

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Putzi

You may see lots of photos from Leningrad also here:
Leningrad photos | War album, 1939, 1940, 1941-1945
or particularly
Leningrad blockade photos | War album, 1939, 1940, 1941-1945


75km to Leningrad


May '41 - May '42 - October '42


Estonian batallion marching through Nevsky, perhaps this was taken after Tallin defense.


Firefighters removing blood from asphalt


Children from Orphanage N38 created in Feb'42


Family walk


New Year at hospital


Harvest of 1942




Defenders of Leningrad


Czech 305mm M16 mortars which were used in shellings of Leningrad


Artillery photo of Leningrad


Breaking the siege


1944


Those two were synonyms back then. If you meant that the poster implied only Germans and not those Bulgarians, Romanians, Finns, Hungarians, Slovaks or Italians who presented fascists then you're wrong. They all were "nemtsy".

antonina

Thanks for the photos Putzi.