MINSK, 10 April (BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko gave his take on the reasons why Germany and Poland are forgetting the lessons of World War II as he gave an interview to the Interstate TV and Radio Company Mir, BelTA has learned.
“Germany has forgotten everything. The fears have gone away together with the generation that fought in the war. There are no eyewitnesses anymore. A new generation has come. They pursue a policy imposed by the states that are located further west, including the UK, the USA. Germany has lost its way, to put it mildly. They have forgotten everything that happened. Yet. From time to time, we hear them say: ‘No, we have no place in the East, we shouldn't fight there. No, we will not go to face up Russians’. This means, their grandchildren still have some genetic memory. But it is, you know, the cries of a lonely man in the desert. No more,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
According to the president, Poland, the Baltic states are acting in the same vein. “Hundreds of thousands of our people died to liberate them. Some 600,000 Soviet soldiers were killed fighting to liberate Poland alone. They have forgotten everything. This is their policy. We forgot nothing, because we do not want to forget. But they do. And they are forgetting everything. The good thing is that through economy, people are beginning to realize the importance of the Eastern direction. I think some time will pass, and they will understand everything. There is no need for us to pay any attention to it. We need to deal with our own issues, mind our own business,” the head of state said.
During the interview, the journalist asked the president to comment on one of his recent quotes. “You can steal the memory, but not the truth,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the CIS summit in Moscow as he delivered the address of the CIS leaders ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Victory.
The head of state explained that memory can be clouded, distorted or planted. Since the truth is living facts, there is no escape from them. “How can you steal the truth? Yes, you can try to distort it, but it is very hard to do. You can succeed for a while, to fit in some mainstream and that is it. But sooner or later time puts everything in its place. Therefore, the truth cannot be stolen since it is based on facts,” the president emphasized.
He recalled the facts of genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War. “Are there places in Belarus that have no mass graves? We have been excavating many of them recently and we see how many people were buried. This is the truth about that time. How do you steal it? You will not steal it as it is based on concrete facts, on the history not some distorted version of it,” Aleksandr Lukashenko added.
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