Photo courtesy of the Culture Ministry of Belarus
MINSK, 15 September (BelTA) - All stages of the development of the Belarusian people will be reflected in the exposition of the National History Museum without omissions or exaggerations, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said in an interview with the Russian magazine Razvedchik, BelTA has learned.
One of the questions concerned the construction of the new National History Museum and the People's Unity Park in Minsk. The head of state explained that the decision to implement such a project is a response to the demands of the time. “The main idea is to show the difficult thousand-year path of the formation of Belarusian statehood and the establishment of Belarusians as a self-sufficient nation with a unique history and rich culture. Our people have fully earned this right,” the president emphasized.
Aleksandr Lukashenko pointed out that Belarusians have traveled a complex historical path and achieved high results. “They did not break when living under the whip of the pans [Polish-Lithuanian gentry], they did not dissolve into a foreign ethnicity when this same whip was used to beat the historical memory, faith, language, and culture out of Belarusians,” he said. “They built a state on unprecedented devastation after the First World War and the Civil War. They displayed mass, unparalleled heroism defending the Motherland during the Great Patriotic War.”
“The entire history of the people is a feat. This should become an object of pride for people, especially for the youth, who have actively joined this nationwide construction [student construction teams of the BRSM Youth Union, for example, are actively involved in the construction works],” the president said.
Aleksandr Lukashenko said that his main requirement for the project's developers was no nationalist or jingoistic excess. “It is necessary to reflect an objective view of our history. Everything must be based on facts and done in the spirit of the times. In the new museum building, descendants will see a model attitude towards their past,” the Belarusian leader said.
The country's most experienced architects, builders, and historians are working on the project. A concept for the exposition has been developed in parallel. According to the president, the history of Belarus is shown in it as a continuous and natural process of the country's appearance on the political map of the world; all stages of the historical development of the Belarusian people are reflected without omissions or exaggerations.
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