"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - President Ronald Reagan
Saturday, January 27, 1979
1944: Siege of Leningrad
On this day in 1944, the siege of Leningrad ended. It was the 900-day German-enforced containment of the city and cost thousands of Russian lives.
We discussed Hitler's decision to invade the USSR with Barry Jacobsen.