MINSK, 27 September (BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko took a question about the probability of holding a common parade by the WWII allies to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory Day in 2025 during a meeting with students at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics in Minsk on 27 September, BelTA learned.
The head of state was asked whether the issue of holding a general parade with the participation of all allied countries that helped defeat the Nazism in 2025 had ever been discussed.
“It has not been discussed and will not be discussed for certain reasons,” the president replied. He pointed out that Western countries had not invited Belarus and Russia even to the recent commemorative events in Auschwitz, even though it was the Soviet army that liberated the concentration camp. Or to the events marking the opening of the second front. “They keep saying that they won and saved the planet from the Nazism while the Soviet Union had nothing to do with it. They want to memory hole the world and, above all, to recode us,” said Alexander Lukashenko.
“So they will not invite us anywhere. They will not hold any events together with us. I am absolutely sure about this,” the president added.