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English writer Caroline Walton presented the Russian version of her book The Besieged: A Story of Survival. In Russian translation, the book is entitled Those Who Survived: 900 Days of the Siege. The online meeting dedicated to the book was timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the siege, the St. Petersburg Vedomosti newspaper reports.
The presentation of the book took place online, the meeting was organized by the London British Society for Cooperation in the Study of Russia and the Soviet Union. The Russian translation of the book will be released in October at the St. Petersburg Association for International Cooperation.
This year, Caroline Walton's book turned ten years old. The pages of the book are filled with love for Leningrad, its inhabitants and the people of the USSR.
The writer said that she was upset by the vilification of Russia in the UK and other Western countries. According to Walton, such a view stops people from seeing the heroic qualities of the Russian people. The writer calls the feat of the siege survivors a miracle and is convinced that mutual aid and "holiness" helped the Soviet people to save the city and the world from the Nazis.
Russkiy Mir
