MINSK, 2 July (BelTA) – Milestones of Belarus’ historical development are marked by the change of eras of great power and great shocks. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement during a solemn assembly dedicated to Independence Day, BelTA has learned.
Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “No conceptually new things happen in our life. Neither today nor back in 1941 when hordes from Western Europe invaded our lands. The Belarusian land had already suffered from tornadoes of crusades and floods of blood that razed our way of life to the ground. But the land was reborn time and again and our nation became stronger. This is how the sacred knot of Eastern Slavonic unity was tied. The unity survived wars, feuds, and endless intrigues of political centers of force that replaced one another.”
He noted that milestones of Belarus’ historical development are marked by the change of eras of great power and great shocks. “It is the historic path, on which our Belarusian nation matured, was tempered, and shaped its own national self-awareness,” the head of state stressed.
“I once told our reporters and other ones: we should stop all the debates about whether the local forms of statehood, which replaced each other, were Belarusian or not. It is important but not very significant. There was a people. The people became a nation. What is going on now is important. The end result is important,” he noted.
The president is convinced that without this self-awareness the Great Victory would not have happened and the country would not have existed today. “Neither our country nor any other country across the entire territory of the former Soviet Union,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
