MINSK, 21 April (BelTA) – Belarusian youth cherish the memory of the Great Patriotic War, Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic Natalya Kochanova said during the opening of the exhibition titled as Unity of the people - the key to the Great Victory, BelTA learned.
The exhibition has been arranged in the hall of the Council of the Republic. It features 16 tablets and tells about the exploits of people of different nationalities, who liberated Belarus, about the heroism and skill of partisans and underground fighters of Belarus.
"We are doing a lot to ensure that young people understand and appreciate everything that the older generations did so that they can live in such a wonderful country. We don’t only preserve monuments, memorial signs, plaques, mass graves and memorial complexes and don’t just maintain what was previously created. We uncover new facts and do our utmost so that our youth and people around the world know about the atrocities that occurred on our land. Every day, new facts about those terrible years come to light. We express our deepest gratitude to the Prosecutor General's Office and its employees for painstakingly uncovering the truth about these events. I think young people understand this very well," Natalya Kochanova said. "The Youth Council has been established under the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus. We meet quite often with young people, students of various educational institutions, and we see how respectfully they treat the Great Victory and the terrible events that took place on our land."
"We have no moral right to forget the feat of our liberators. Some may think that we talk too much about the war, but this is not true. If we forget, history could repeat itself. To prevent this, we must speak about it. We must talk about the heroism of the Soviet people who fought at the cost of their lives. What about those who lived under occupation? That was a terrible tragedy," she noted. "We recently visited St. Petersburg and laid wreaths at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery, where 500,000 soldiers and civilians are buried. In Belarus, people also lived under German occupation. The Belarusian people suffered greatly, being destroyed, killed and tortured, but they did everything to fight fascism. They created underground organizations and fought in partisan detachments."
"This cannot be forgotten, and it should not go unappreciated. And certainly we owe a debt of gratitude to all those who survived those terrible events," Natalya Kochanova emphasized.
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