VOLGOGRAD, 29 April (BelTA) – It is important to preserve the historical memory and, figuratively speaking, hold on to it for dear life. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement during the international patriotic forum of the Union State of Belarus and Russia “Great heritage - common future” in the Russian city of Volgograd on 29 April, BelTA has learned.
The head of state remarked that the question of why it is so important is often asked in Russia and Belarus as well as from the outside. “I would like them to hear why we hold on to this memory so tightly. First of all, we should be proud of this memory. They envy us. Thank god, we have the generation of winners that we are proud of,” the president stated.
The second key aspect is connected to the current international situation, to the beginning of a new confrontation, to the war that Belarus and Russia did not start. “The next stage of this war will be a hot war, a world war with weapons in arms. We don’t want that. A mass media stage of the war is now in progress. Thank god, for now. We debate things, fight on these platforms. A war is now in progress for the minds of our people and for their heads. A modern hot war is impossible without this preparation. This preparation has begun,” the president stated.
In this situation it is certainly important to preserve the historical memory and the truth about those events in order to demonstrate to the current generation and future ones that the heroic past of the ancestors stands behind them. “And if all of a sudden we have to fight for our land, for our families, for our kids the way they fought, without sparing their lives and anything they had… This is why we talk about the historical memory. Not because we want to talk,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
However, some people believe that the ongoing work to preserve the historical memory is nothing but demonstration. It is actually not true, the president stressed. Everything being done in this field is of fundamental importance. “Once we forget the road to [the WW2 memorial] Khatyn, to Stalingrad, to the Brest Fortress, all of it will come back in the blink of an eye. This is why we should hold on to this historical memory for dear life,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed.
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