Complete removal of the poster

The city center for advertising St. Petersburg ordered the agencies to remove external advertising of the goods of German brands from January 15, Business Petersburg reports . On January 18, the day of the breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad is celebrated, on the 26th - the day of the complete removal of the blockade.

According to the order, advertising should be removed from the main highways of the city, as well as in the areas of cemeteries. The publication could not receive official comments in the St. Petersburg Administration.

The Volgobaltmedia confirmed the publication that such a fax was. The agency had to remove the advertisement for the Mediamarkt hypermarkets from the five stops of transport. The operator did not suffer losses, the contracts managed to dry.

“In any business, you can reach the point of absurdity, but, in my opinion, the removal of shields only because these are German brands, stupidity,” said the Director of the Development of “Axel -Group”, the BMW and Volkswagen dealer, Igor Sedov. “Even in Germany itself, the crimes of Nazism and the German people are clearly shared. Of course, in the Piskarevsky cem Inappropriate, but only because there is no place for any advertising in principle. "

"I respect the suffering and merits of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. I gratefully notice that the Russians make the distinction between the Germans and the Nazis, and believe that the Nazis attacked in 1941. Only on this basis it is possible to build cooperation in the future," said Gabriela Köchau, deputy chief manager of the Gamburg Commercial Chamber in St. Petersburg. firms; I have nothing to do with the war with the war on the days of the celebration of this important way for Leningraders, I still consider it wrong.