Lukashenko: no weapons can break the people if they are united
It is not only the military force that matters now: no state-of-the-art weapons will be able to break the people if there is unity – as stated by the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, at today’s solemn meeting on the occasion of Victory Day held at the Palace of the Republic
The Head of State noted, “Our opponents understand this well, and they are doing everything to pull us apart.”
The Belarusian leader drew attention to a solemn part of today’s planned programme, “Paying tribute to the military and labour feat of our compatriots during the war years, we are awarding now the Belarusian settlements that showed themselves most selflessly in the fight against the enemy with pennons For Courage and Fortitude During Great Patriotic War. Actually, all cities and villages deserve this award, and it was very difficult to choose just several of them. Fascists faced fierce resistance in every settlement, on every piece of Belarusian land. Our territory was virtually burning under the occupiers’ boots. You know from the stories of your parents and grandfathers how difficult it was for those who survived to live through that. They survived in dugouts, trenches and forests. They lacked food and clothes, suffered from pediculosis, and had small children with them. This cannot be allowed anymore, this will never repeat in the history of Belarus.”
Aleksandr Lukashenko appealed to the veterans who had endured all the hardships of that war, “We have an example: these are our war veterans. Not many of them are still alive. These people were engaged into the restoration of our country after the war. They did everything for us on the battlefield – and even more. In the first post-war years, these people – just imagine, they were poor and weak – found the strength and courage to return and rebuild the country. We must not forget this. As soon as we forget, this trouble will come to us.”
The Head of State also addressed Belarus’ liberators who now live in different parts of the world, extending words of gratitude to them, “You are dear people for us. No matter what happens and no matter how people treat the Victory in places where you live now, the Belarusian land remembers all of you, and it is grateful to you. Eternal glory to the heroic feat of the peoples of the Soviet Union, who together went through the fiery hardships of the war and defeated Nazism!”
