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10 Jun 2014

Belarus president: Revising World War Two results is out of the question

MINSK, 10 June (BelTA) – Revising results of World War Two is inappropriate. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the statement in an interview with Serbian mass media on 9 June, BelTA has learned.

“The 70th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy by allied troops was celebrated a short while ago. The approach practiced by mass media made it look like it was the biggest event of World War Two!” noted the President. “I am not trying to offend the English or the French. But I watched these celebrations in Normandy. They made it look like the French had been fighting their entire life! But the Nazi went through France within 24 hours! One day and night! What kind of a resistance movement was there? It bears no comparison with the resistance movement that existed even in Belarus. About 500,000 partisans and underground resistance fighters died in Belarus alone”. “Attempts to stay silent about it and to keep it secret are made these days… It won’t work! We will constantly remind the entire world about it just the way we do it in Belarus,” stressed Alexander Lukashenko.

“We will constantly talk about it and not only inside our country. We will make people understand it. Open-minded people understand that without the victory of the Soviet Army, the Red Army at the Soviet-German front, our colors would still have been brown,” remarked the head of state. He reminded that the Soviet Union lost nearly 30 million people during the war, with Belarus losing nearly one third of its population.

Alexander Lukashenko said that on the day of the 70th anniversary of Belarus’ liberation a new Great Patriotic War Museum will be opened in Minsk for the young people to see and know these events. A time capsule was put at the construction site of the Trostenets Memorial on 8 June. The Trostenets death camp was the largest one in the Soviet Union territory and was on par with Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Treblinka. “But nobody knows how many people were slaughtered and burnt there. Up to half a million. They were brought from all over Europe. Our people, Belarusians, particularly Minsk underground resistance fighters, Soviet prisoners of war were brought there,” noted the President. “There were 260 death camps like that in Belarus. It is where the main events unfolded, it is where people suffered most”.

“And then Hitler and the Nazi believed that if they manage to conquer the Soviet Union, they will be able to waltz through the rest of the world,” noted the head of state.

“Therefore, revising World War Two results is out of the question. We will not give away our victory. Our victory is your victory, too. Because after Soviet troops the resistance movement in Yugoslavia was likely the strongest one,” concluded Alexander Lukashenko.

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