Remember in our opinion

What does it mean to remember "in our opinion"? How are we used to talking about the blockade of Leningrad? What and why is supplanted from the memory of this event, and what is in it as a self -evident, morally due and aesthetically permissible? The book of Tatyana Voronina is devoted to the representation of the Leningrad blockade in Soviet culture. The author traces in what forms this is the most important event (1941-1944) of the Great Patriotic War is described in literature and is fixed in historical memory. Public ideas about the blockade were largely predetermined by the socialist canon: artistic texts published in the post -war USSR were created in compliance with the special rules for describing Soviet reality, which also influenced historical works. The author also shows how the prevailing language and form of the story about the past were perceived by the public movement of blockade and instrumentalized by the means of memory politics