MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) – The generation of people who won the war showed that the strength of nations does not lie in capital, or military power, or ambitions. It lies in true values, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said addressing the 7th Belarusian People’s Congress on 24 April, BelTA has learned.
The head of state recalled that this year the country will celebrate the 80th anniversary of its liberation from the Nazi invaders.
“The generation of winners showed that the strength of nations does not lie in capital, or military power, or ambitions. It lies in true values, in the pursuit of justice and in confidence,” the Belarusian leader emphasized. “When the enemy set foot on the Soviet oil, the country was still recovering from the devastating aftermath of the civil war. People did not live a wealthy life. But they won. They prevailed over the whole of Europe, a rich region that stood under the Nazis banners! The Soviet people cleansed their homeland of Nazis and cleaned up those countries that had once looked down upon them,” the president said.
Aleksandr Lukashenko is confident that the Soviet people won the war because they fought for their homeland, which gave them strength: “It gave strength on the battlefield, strength to survive grief, strength to restore what was destroyed and strength not to take revenge.”
In this regard, the head of state raised the question about who became stronger as a result of acts of intimidation - the bombing of Dresden, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “It was absolutely senseless and cruel. A shameful page in history: hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed at the end of the war, when the outcome of the war was already clear. What for? To declare their dominance and keep the planet in fear,” the president noted.
In this regard, the head of state raised the question about who became stronger as a result of acts of intimidation - the bombing of Dresden, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “It was absolutely senseless and cruel. A shameful page in history: hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed at the end of the war, when the outcome of the war was already clear. What for? To declare their dominance and keep the planet in fear,” the president noted.
