“January 27 is one of the most important dates in our common national history: on this day in 1944, Red Army troops completely broke the blockade of Leningrad, and a year later, in 1945, they liberated Auschwitz,” the president said, speaking at the event.
The crimes of “Hitler fanatics” have no statute of limitations, and the same applies to their accomplices, the head of state emphasized.
The martyrdom of Leningraders will forever remain evidence of the monstrous essence of Nazism, the unimaginable suffering of millions of innocent civilians, Putin said.
On January 27, the President of Russia laid a wreath at the Motherland monument at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery.