Belarus’ Ambassador responded to proposal of ‘figures of the West and their hangers-on’ to forget the tragedy of 1941-1944

While speaking in Moscow at the opening of the Every Third requiem concert dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Belarus’ liberation, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Russia, Dmitry Krutoi, has assured Western politicians that Belarus will never forget the tragedy of the war years

Commenting on the proposals made by the West to put the tragic pages of the Great Patriotic War into oblivion, the diplomat declared Belarus’ commitment to historical memory, “Western figures and their hangers-on suggest that we forget about the tragic events of 1941-1944 and ‘move on’. They say, 80 years have passed, so there is no need to stir up the past. Of course, they are wrong: we will never forget the memory of the terrible price, the heroic feat of our ancestors. This will forever remain a solid foundation for Belarusian society and our state. This is the main pillar of our true independence, and that is why July 3rd is our true Independence Day.”   

The diplomat added that, never in the history of Belarusians, there had been such a great desire to physically destroy the nation as it was shown by fascists during the Great Patriotic War. At the same time, people in the West shamefully conceal the fact that those were Soviet soldiers who stopped the total extermination of Europe. “Moreover, they have already elevated the process of falsification of historical events, the destruction of monuments to soldiers-liberators, the desecration of their burial sites to the rank of politics, forgetting that, for example, more than 500 thousand Soviet soldiers and officers died only during the liberation of Poland. At present, Poles declare that they will allocate more than 4 percent of their GDP to military spending, and it is clear why this is happening. Unfortunately, Nazism – defeated, but not finished off by our heroic ancestors – has again raised its head in the modern world,” the Ambassador of Belarus to Russia stated.