MINSK, 2 July (BelTA) – Deeds of the Soviet people and the date for celebrating Belarus' Independence Day are unshakable. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement at a solemn assembly held on 2 July in anticipation of Independence Day, BelTA has learned.
Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “Dear veterans! Dear friends, those who spent their lives restoring our Belarus after the war. I understand how painful it is for you to watch attempts to revise the history, appoint new victors, whitewash criminals, and make young Belarusians respect false heroes. Have no doubt! We will not give away your Great Victory to anyone! It is a matter of honor not only for our generation.”
Aleksandr Lukashenko reminded all those, who deliberately alter facts, and those, who are confused, that it was not a coalition of Western allies that drove the Hitler troops from Moscow to Berlin, the Western allies did not destroy the brown plague where it had been born, they did not liberate the Soviet Union, Belarus, and Minsk. “The Soviet people, we, Belarusians did not surrender. People rose up to defend their Motherland. Millions of people – Red Army soldiers, underground resistance fighters, and partisans – fought against the enemy from the first day to the last one. Those, who did not fight on the frontlines, helped by supplying food, by hiding and treating the injured, by risking their lives every day in the name of saving the Fatherland,” he noted.
“This is why the deeds of the Soviet people and the date for celebrating Belarus' Independence Day are unshakable,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed.
