MINSK, 18 April (BelTA) – During the Great Patriotic War the Belarusian people were exterminated in death camps, experimental laboratories, gas chambers and their own homes, Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova said as she spoke in St. Petersburg at a meeting of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly marking the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, BelTA has learned.
“Every third person died, thousands of destroyed and burned villages disappeared from the face of the earth forever. The Belarusian people were simply annihilated in death camps, experimental laboratories, gas chambers, and their own homes. Every centimeter of land is soaked with the blood of its inhabitants and Soviet soldiers,” Natalya Kochanova said adding that Belarusians know this bitter truth not from textbooks. “We grew up with it. We will let no one take it away,” the speaker emphasized.
According to the chairperson of the Council of the Republic, Belarus is a living monument to that terrible war. Belarus was the first to bear the crushing blow of the Wehrmacht divisions.
Unfortunately, there are dangerous trends today: the attempts to distort history and assessments of the results of the Second World War, there are attempts to equalize the rights of victims and executioners, liberators and aggressors, and the decisions of the international military tribunal are questioned, Natalya Kochanova said.
“We are offered to believe that black is white in return for political and financial patronage. Monuments are demolished and graves of heroes-liberators are desecrated,” the speaker said. “Neo-Nazis are marching through the streets of liberated Europe. In the Parliament of Canada, an SS legionnaire, who has distinguished himself with special cruelty, is given a standing ovation by those who write the laws of the new time.”
“The modern generation of Europeans no longer knows that they owe their birth not only to their ancestors, but also to our soldiers, who paid with their lives for peace and their bright future. The future that never came for more than three million Belarusians, who died in battles, killed in cold blood and tortured to death by German invaders,” Natalya Kochanova said.
The consequences of the genocide of the Belarusian people on the scale and cruelty are unrivaled in modern history, the speaker emphasized. To this day, new facts of heinous crimes and places of mass graves are being uncovered. “We have yet to fully comprehend and give an objective assessment of all those events and facts collected in the criminal case on the genocide of the Belarusian people, which is being investigated by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Belarus,” the speaker said.
The chairperson of the Council of the Republic added that very little time is left before marking a particularly important and significant date, which eight decades ago was a natural triumph of justice, gave the long-awaited hope for a peaceful future. Great Victory Day is an event that determined the future fate of millions of people. This is the day that ended the largest and bloodiest war in the history of mankind.
“The memory of it is timeless. It became a symbol of unity and cohesion of the multinational Soviet people. It has become a bond that tied our kin countries into a single genetic knot. The spirit of the victorious people, which is in each of us, will not let it be torn,” Natalya Kochanova said.
“Every third person died, thousands of destroyed and burned villages disappeared from the face of the earth forever. The Belarusian people were simply annihilated in death camps, experimental laboratories, gas chambers, and their own homes. Every centimeter of land is soaked with the blood of its inhabitants and Soviet soldiers,” Natalya Kochanova said adding that Belarusians know this bitter truth not from textbooks. “We grew up with it. We will let no one take it away,” the speaker emphasized.
According to the chairperson of the Council of the Republic, Belarus is a living monument to that terrible war. Belarus was the first to bear the crushing blow of the Wehrmacht divisions.
Unfortunately, there are dangerous trends today: the attempts to distort history and assessments of the results of the Second World War, there are attempts to equalize the rights of victims and executioners, liberators and aggressors, and the decisions of the international military tribunal are questioned, Natalya Kochanova said.
“We are offered to believe that black is white in return for political and financial patronage. Monuments are demolished and graves of heroes-liberators are desecrated,” the speaker said. “Neo-Nazis are marching through the streets of liberated Europe. In the Parliament of Canada, an SS legionnaire, who has distinguished himself with special cruelty, is given a standing ovation by those who write the laws of the new time.”
“The modern generation of Europeans no longer knows that they owe their birth not only to their ancestors, but also to our soldiers, who paid with their lives for peace and their bright future. The future that never came for more than three million Belarusians, who died in battles, killed in cold blood and tortured to death by German invaders,” Natalya Kochanova said.
The consequences of the genocide of the Belarusian people on the scale and cruelty are unrivaled in modern history, the speaker emphasized. To this day, new facts of heinous crimes and places of mass graves are being uncovered. “We have yet to fully comprehend and give an objective assessment of all those events and facts collected in the criminal case on the genocide of the Belarusian people, which is being investigated by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Belarus,” the speaker said.
The chairperson of the Council of the Republic added that very little time is left before marking a particularly important and significant date, which eight decades ago was a natural triumph of justice, gave the long-awaited hope for a peaceful future. Great Victory Day is an event that determined the future fate of millions of people. This is the day that ended the largest and bloodiest war in the history of mankind.
“The memory of it is timeless. It became a symbol of unity and cohesion of the multinational Soviet people. It has become a bond that tied our kin countries into a single genetic knot. The spirit of the victorious people, which is in each of us, will not let it be torn,” Natalya Kochanova said.
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