MINSK, 7 May (BelTA) – While Belarusians honor their country through labor achievements, they stand ready to defend it with weapons, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a state awards ceremony ahead of Victory Day on 7 May, BelTA has learned.
“Just like them [the representatives of the heroic generation of victors], we glorify our Motherland primarily through our labor victories. However, if necessary, we stand ready to defend it with weapons, sparing no effort or our very lives, just as they did,” the head of state assured.
Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized that Belarus, which lost every third citizen in the crucible of the Great Patriotic War and was left ruined and burned yet unconquered, saved the planet from the “brown plague” alongside other peoples of the Soviet Union. “This is the greatest merit and the pride of the Belarusian people and all the Soviet people. We must never renounce this pride,” he stated.
Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that in the spring of 1945, the liberated republic was rising from the ashes: “People worked selflessly to restore plant workshops and entire cities from ruins. They greeted Victory trains with wildflowers. And on 9 May, nearly the entire population of Minsk gathered at Lenin Square.”
Among those who received state awards are many representatives of the security and defense agencies. As Aleksandr Lukashenko noted, these are people who are always on combat duty. “Every peaceful day, every peaceful year is their immense merit,” he stressed.
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