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Dmitry Medvedev attended a performance to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade

January 27, 2009, St Petersburg

The President congratulated the citizens of the city on the 65th anniversary of the lifting of the siege, which lasted about 900 days, from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944. He said that the blockade of Leningrad was a drama that involved millions of people and one of the most terrible and cynical crimes of the twentieth century.

January 27, 2009, St Petersburg