He suffered on his skin and withstood the terrible siege of the Nazis in Leningrad. Today he suffers from the repression of Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.
Regardless of ailments and advanced age - she is more than 80 years old - the woman, a known survivor of the siege that took place during the Second World War and today a painter, took to the streets in St. Petersburg with two large signs to say no to the invasion Russian in Ukraine.
"Soldier, drop your weapon and you will be a hero," wrote the old Russian on one of her banners.
Her protest did not last long, she was arrested and taken away by the police. A video, which immediately went viral, sparked general indignation all over the world: two Russian agents in riot gear were seen lifting her weight while around hundreds of demonstrators shouting all their indignation. Yesterday 285 other people were arrested with her.
Petite in build, Yelena experienced firsthand the attempted assault by Hitler's forces against her city, Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. Certainly one of the most bitter defeats of the Nazis in the war against the USSR.
The arrest of the old woman is added to that of over 7 thousand fellow citizens arrested in their country in recent days because they take to the streets to ask for peace. Among them are also David and Sofia, aged 7, and Gosha and Liza, aged 11, who spent a night behind bars in Moscow for having gone, with their placards calling for an end to the war, to leave flowers. in front of the Ukrainian embassy.
(Unioneonline / L)
