Roman Golovchenko
ZHLOBIN DISTRICT, 7 December (BelTA) – Belarus and Russia are bearers of the sharpest truth about the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko emphasized it during a commemorative lesson held in a new museum of the memorial complex “To children victims of the war” in Krasny Bereg, Zhlobin District, Gomel Oblast on 7 December, BelTA has learned.
School students asked the prime minister: what other countries honor the memory about the people, who defended the world in the fight against fascism, just like Belarus and Russia?
Roman Golovchenko stressed that Belarus and Russia are at the forefront of the efforts to preserve memory about what people had to live through and what sacrifices they had to make 80 years ago.
“Very dangerous processes of erosion of the truth about Great Patriotic War events have been going on for the last few decades. And certainly, all of it is happening for a reason,” the prime minister pointed out.
He recalled the situation in the 1990s, in the first decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union: “When the so-called freedom of speech was declared, our country, our book shelves were flooded by an entire wave of books with the so-called new truth. A new truth about the war, about ‘blood-soaked marshals’, about poor soldiers, disciplinary battalions, and so on. The ‘truth’ came not only in books but also in TV shows. And it caused a certain shock because it greatly contrasted with what we had known before that.”
Roman Golovchenko remarked that time was needed to sort out everything. “Today we already understand and know that all these activities, all these publications were financed and planned from abroad. They were planned by inheritors of those, who were crushed by us during the Great Patriotic War,” he emphasized.
“This is why all the ongoing attempts are far from innocent. These are not simple historic debates or attempts to interpret events in new ways. These are planned ideological diversions against our common memory. They are designed to deprive us of our pillars, on which we build our own ideology, the ideology of our state. They are designed to erase the role of the entire Soviet nation, the Belarusian nation in freeing the world from the most terrible evil in the history of mankind – fascism,” Roman Golovchenko said.
“At present the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation are the bearers of the sharpest truth about the war. Other countries, which used to be part of the Soviet Union, stand with us. They are now members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. They honor memory of the Victory, hold celebrations in memory of those days. They honor the war veterans, who still live,” the prime minister noted.
He stated with regret that the geographical West, the states that belonged to the anti-Hitler coalition lack this attitude. “Some events are organized over there but their format is very narrow. They focus on small events. And the most provocative fact is that representatives of neither Russia nor Belarus have been invited to events dedicated to the end of World War Two in Europe for the last few years,” Roman Golovchenko stressed.
The commemorative lesson was hosted by Sergei Shaminsky, a teacher at the Dovsk Secondary School, Rogachev District, winner of the Belarus Teacher of the Year 2023 contest, and Sergei Goroshko, Director of the Antonovka Secondary School, Zhlobin District.
The commemorative lesson began the patriotic campaign “Small ship of hope” that will last till Victory Day. Similar lessons will be held in all the educational institutions in Gomel Oblast.
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