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MOSCOW, 4 May (BelTA) – The Great Patriotic War veterans, including those who participated in the operation to liberate Belarus were celebrated at a ceremony commemorating the 73rd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War in the Belarusian Embassy in Moscow on 3 May, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia.

“As we celebrate this holiday, we honor and pay tribute, in every family, enterprise and at the state level, to the generation of victors - fallen, dead and living heroes of the Great Patriotic War: soldiers, partisans, undergrounders home front workers,” Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Russia Igor Petrishenko said at the ceremony. To make sure the horrors of the past war never happen again, we should not forget about the past. We should cherish the memory of the Great Victory and safeguard peace in our native land, the ambassador stressed.

The participants of the event attended the exhibition “In Battles for the Fatherland” provided by the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition features the documents and photographs, newspaper pages and handwritten dairies describing the everyday life and partisan operations of the first partisan detachments.

The event wrapped up with a concert featuring the Belarusian state academic dance company Khoroshki.

The event was attended by the war veterans, representatives of the Federal Assembly of Russia, the Standing Committee of the Belarus-Russia Union State, the Belarus-Russia Union State Parliamentary Assembly, the CIS Executive Committee, the Eurasian Economic Commission, the CSTO Secretariat, Russian academic and artistic communities, the Belarusian Diaspora and the office of the Belarusian Exarchate in Moscow.