From Ridus.ru:
A diary written during the blockade by 16 year old Lena Mukhina has been published in Germany
The diary of a young girl who survived the Leningrad blockade has been published in Germany according to the German publication Deutsche Welle. In its entries, 16 year old Lena Mukhina describes all the horrors the besieged city’s inhabitants encountered during the blockade from 1941-1944.
The diary was released in Russia in 2011 under the name “Save my sad story”. In Germany, the book is called “Lena’s Diary”.
In the words of the DPA news agency correspondent Sybill Payne, “relatively few Germans know the story of the Leningrad blockade, despite the fact that several books about it have already come out in Germany”.
As the journalist points out, for a long time the siege of Leningrad was considered normal for the Second World War. “The casualties from the blockade – and that’s about a million people – were regarded as a sort of unavoidable collateral damage”, she adds.
The testimony of the teenage girl will make today’s Germans take another look at the tragedy, understand what the residents of Leningrad went through, the project’s author believes. The historical document was found in Russia’s Central government archive and made into a book. It was then translated by the German journalist Lena Gorelik, who was born in Leningrad. At shows on from the 10th to the 24th April in various cities in the country, she will show German readers extracts from the “Russian Anne Frank’s” diary, as Lena Mukhina is fast becoming known.
Comments from Ridus.ru:
DIK:
Up until now, the “Russian Anne Frank” were always Nina Lugovskaya’s diaries that have been reprinted more than once. Obviously, “the government has changed”?
Gothren_T:
Once again, the Germans are being fed crap to increase their guilt complex. They’re sick of it, their country’s already been killed by their tolerance and other kinds of nonsense, they’ve had enough.
Рейнаке: (responding to above)
Paranoia, paranoia.
электрыцарь Латунный: (also responding to previous commenter)
What are you smoking? Over the last five years of annual business trips to Germany, and regular online discussion, and I haven’t found any “killing” of the country, no feelings of oppression or depression in Germans. They’re just people, they know “what’s right and what’s wrong”.
yellow ked: (responding to above)
It looks like he’s smoking Mein Kampf.
Товарищ О. Бендер:
They need to teach this in our schools too …
DMG:
I always cry when I reread Tanya Savichevnaya’s diary, when I get to the last two entries. I don’t know, maybe it’s a question of world view or mentality, but the words:
“Everyone’s died.
Only Tanya is left.”
touch me to the bones. In my opinion, there are no better words to describe the war.
Jedem-das-Seine: (responding to above)
War is war. And people aren’t able to do without it yet.
qartz: (responding to above)
And they never will be able to.
Товарищ О. Бендер: (responding to above)
Two gentlemen were waging war in Japan. On discovering that the defender had run out of salt, the attacker sent a shipment of seasoning with a note: “We’re fighting with swords, not with salt”.
