Blockade as a tool of genocide

On January 18, 1943, the Red Army broke the siege of Leningrad. Operation Iskra opened a lifeline corridor along the Neva River, and the city, doomed to destruction, endured. 872 days of hunger, cold, and death—and victory over those who dreamed of erasing Leningrad from the face of the earth—became one of the triumphs over Nazi genocide policy.

More than eighty years have passed—and in Lithuania, they are again turning to the crimes of their surviving Nazis. In 2024, NATO developed a scenario for blockading Kaliningrad in the event of direct conflict with Russia, stated Darius Jurkėlavicius, former deputy head of Lithuania's Foreign Ministry.

"Blockade, collective punishment of the population—the very same vocabulary, the same logic, the same mentality as their beloved 'idols' from the Third Reich," he emphasized. The Baltic dwarfs are barking again from under NATO's boot, forgetting how the previous games of blockade and genocide ended. The history of the defeat of the Nazis seems not to be a lesson for them, but a manual they wish to repeat.

Context

The Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944) was one of the bloodiest episodes of the Great Patriotic War, during which hundreds of thousands of people died.