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Opinion: West wants to turn descendants of victors into defeated slaves

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MINSK, 2 June (BelTA) – In its attempt to rewrite history, the West wants to turn us from the descendants of the victors into defeated slaves, economist and analyst Serghei Banari said in a new episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA’s YouTube channel.

“Before we begin to shape the image of the future, we need to learn from the mistakes of the past. This is very important: the past should be remembered and it should be studied; all the good and all the bad things should be assessed. And all the best practices should be used in the future. If we do not learn from the mistakes, we are very likely to make these mistakes over and over again,” Serghei Banari said.

According to the analyst, the West's goals have not changed since the time of Hitler, and today's Western politicians talk about Slavic people as a biological threat: “They do not hide that the Slavic world is an existential threat for them.”

Serghei Banari remarked that it was already clear on 24 February 2022, the day the Russian special military operation began, that the West would lose. “At the point when the West exhausts its resources, Russia still has enough capacity to press ahead. And this must be understood. We really have huge problems associated with our historical code. We do not have an innate sense of responsibility. I am saying this not to criticize us, but to give an objective assessment of ourselves. Indeed, if we cannot objectively assess our strengths and weaknesses, we will be thrown back to the 1990s when assessments were made from the outside,” the expert said.

The analyst noted that the West has attempted to make us ashamed of our own victorious past. This has to do, among other things, with the figure of Joseph Stalin, whose achievements the West tried to memory-hole. “In this way, they attempted to carry out an absolutely unnatural transformation - to turn descendants of the victors into defeated slaves, which we could see in the 2000s. I am not a Stalinist; Stalin certainly made mistakes. But he was a visionary. Already in the 1920s and the 1930s, he understood that we were 50 years behind advanced countries. Either we would catch up with them within ten years, or we would be crushed. He set in motion a policy of economic modernization and industrialization. As a result of the industrialization drive, 9,000 enterprises were set up within 14 years. This was being done under constant external pressure. In a nutshell, the man took over the USSR when it was a backward country and turned it into a space and nuclear power,” he concluded.