POLOTSK, 8 November (BelTA) – The history of people’s rule in Belarusian lands is more than one thousand years old. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement as he delivered a speech during the Vitebsk Oblast harvest festival Dazhynki 2024 in Polotsk on 8 November, BelTA has learned.
The head of state remarked that it was in Polotsk 1,200 years ago that the Belarusian nation embarked on an arduous, hard road towards a statehood of its own.
“In as early as the 12th century Polotsk was a well-developed metropolitan city of Eastern Europe. By the way, today the West condescendingly tries to teach us people’s rule. Particularly Americans, whose country is only about 250 years old,” the president remarked. “The wisdom of centuries, deep traditions of state administration that are postulated in ancient sources of the law stand behind us. Origins of today’s people’s democracy of ours are over there.”
“It is the experience of the ancestors that we tap into when step by step, in an evolutionary manner we develop, perfect, and bolster the Belarusian state,” the Belarusian leader stressed.
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