That cruel temptress we call fate had yet to deliver the coup d’état

But the ordeal was far from over. That cruel temptress we call fate had yet to deliver the coup d’état. The onset of the Second World War saw the city (by then bearing the moniker of Leningrad) hang on grimly to dear life as the Nazis laid siege for 900 days, and the Fuehrer’s blockade saw nearly 650,000 die of hunger, with more than 17,000 blown away by the air raids and arbitrary gunfire. And I haven’t even mentioned the countless thousands who died of what could be a lexicon of diseases. All of this remains a forgotten footnote in history, buried under layers of forgotten memories. “And why should we remember it, sir? What's that saying... let bygones be bygones?” For the first time I noticed a tinge of displeasure in my feisty friend’s tone and, knowing I had touched a raw nerve, dropped the topic altogether.

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