The Blockade Swallow Lewis Buxton FEATURE ON SAADI YOUSSEF

FEATURE ON SAADI YOUSSEF

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Keane was also an accomplished poet with a sharp wit and strident humour

The Blockade Swallow Lewis Buxton FEATURE ON SAADI YOUSSEFOlga Berggolts (1910 1975) was a Soviet poet, playwright and journalist, whose daily broadcasts on Leningrad radio during the Nazi blockade of the city (1941 44) became a symbol of the city's refusal to surrender. One and a half million people starved to death during the siege, including Berggolts husband. In 1943 she was awarded the Defence of Leningrad medal. After the War, the publication of Berggolts writings about the suffering of ordinary