MINSK, 6 May (BelTA) – Belarus is an unconquered land, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a solemn assembly to mark the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War in Minsk on 6 May, BelTA has learned.
“We are eternally proud of the selfless people who were the first to take the blow at the walls of the Brest Citadel, who stood to the death on the outskirts of Minsk and Mogilev, in the swamps and marshes of Polesie. The will to victory was forged here, on the native land, despite the terrible losses. Photographs of dozens of burnt German tanks on Buinichi field, published in the first months of the war, gave the Soviet people faith that the enemy would be defeated, that he would not have an easy victory here like in the west in Europe. And Belarus fought. It fought at the front, in partisan units and underground,” the head of said state.
“We know that we live on the unconquered land. There was not a single day when the enemy felt a master here: he was shot at from ruins, forests, swamps, ravines and cellars,” Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized.
“We are eternally proud of the selfless people who were the first to take the blow at the walls of the Brest Citadel, who stood to the death on the outskirts of Minsk and Mogilev, in the swamps and marshes of Polesie. The will to victory was forged here, on the native land, despite the terrible losses. Photographs of dozens of burnt German tanks on Buinichi field, published in the first months of the war, gave the Soviet people faith that the enemy would be defeated, that he would not have an easy victory here like in the west in Europe. And Belarus fought. It fought at the front, in partisan units and underground,” the head of said state.
“We know that we live on the unconquered land. There was not a single day when the enemy felt a master here: he was shot at from ruins, forests, swamps, ravines and cellars,” Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized.
The president also emphasized the role of the brotherly peoples who took part in the liberation of Belarus: “We never tire of thanking the peoples of the Soviet republics whose sons and daughters fought for every meter of the Belarusian land as for their homeland. We, the Belarusians, will never betray this battle-hardened brotherhood. The names of the fallen heroes will forever remain in our hearts”.
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