MINSK, 17 September (BelTA) - Scientists, educators, journalists, and experts must operate within a unified strategy on historical memory, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a meeting with members of the expert community engaged in ideological work to mark Day of People’s Unity on 17 September, BelTA has learned.
“We understand that Belarus, having passed a third of a century of its sovereign history, is still very young. The history of the sovereign state is only just beginning. And I have said more than once that we are walking on thin ice,” the president said. “Those who dream of this ice cracking will endlessly speculate on historical dates that are important to us, pushing fakes about pacts, conspiracies, and other nonsense that is easily refuted by historical documents.”
In this regard, the president cited the example of the non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. If this document is considered superficially, it creates the impression that the Soviet Union and Germany simply divided Poland. However, Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized that this topic needs to be analyzed more deeply to understand the preconditions, which also lie in the policies of Poland itself.
In particular, the head of state recalled the laudatory speeches made by the Polish ambassador to Nazi Germany in praise of Adolf Hitler. “An ambassador (especially in those times, from a major country like Poland) would never say things that are not being said in Poland,” he said.
Thus, Aleksandr Lukashenko stated that such serious issues should be analyzed and considered from different angles. “This is a task not even for historians, but for experienced politicians, who can, through their own political life, career, and so on, look specifically at those events,” the president believes.
Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed that historians analyze documents and facts, building a chronology of events. The ideological task, he emphasized, is to transform this material into narratives, into arguments and counter-arguments, and to work with them in the information field.
“Here, scientists, educators, journalists, and experts must act within a unified strategy on historical memory,” the head of state said.
In this regard, he asked the participants of the meeting for their views on the further path forward in the context of the tasks of historical memory and also inquired about the analysis of the work done on specific instructions from the president.
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