Tag #145670 - Interview #78177 (Larisa Gorelova)

I witnessed the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945 in Leningrad. I was a witness to the return of Klodt's horses - the famous sculptures on Anichkov Bridge on Nevsky Prospekt, the main street in Leningrad. People, who survived the siege, very much despised those, who had been evacuated, regardless of where the person had escaped from the Germans, and where he/she came back from after the victory [31]; it was considered that all who returned were those who had fled from the siege. In stores and everywhere people spoke contemptuously about the evacuated.