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GATCHINSKY DISTRICT (Leningrad region), January 27.< /strong>President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko criticized the destruction of monuments to Soviet soldiers in Poland, the Baltic countries and Ukraine, saying that the memory of the events of World War II lives not in monuments, but in the hearts of people.
“The memory of the victims of that war, of the heroism of our fathers and grandfathers today prevents many from living, especially the ideological henchmen of murderers and traitors. They are the ones who welcome the executioners in their parliaments, they are the ones who started the war with graves and monuments in Poland, the Baltic states, and Ukraine. Complete madmen. How can you think that by destroying a monument you will destroy the memory that lives in the hearts of the people? A people who have found the strength to build new peaceful relations with those states that just yesterday brought suffering and death to our lands,” Lukashenko said during the opening ceremony of the Memorial complex in memory of civilians of the USSR — victims of the Nazi genocide during the Great Patriotic War.
Lukashenko noted that every monument dedicated to the events of the Great Patriotic War is “a witness, accuser and judge, irrefutable evidence of the genocide of the Soviet people, a sentence for centuries, no matter how much someone wants it (other — ed. ) Today «.
The President of Belarus noted that the memory of the heroism of the winners and the spiritual feat of the Soviet people will be cherished forever.
“The price of the Great Victory is our common pain. Common to all peoples sentenced to death by Hitler’s Germany. Belarusians feel it like no one else,” Lukashenko said.
He drew attention to the fact that in the Soviet years, priority was given to perpetuating the memory of the Red Army soldiers, partisans, those who directly fought and defended their land with weapons, there are thousands of such monuments in Russia and Belarus. At the same time, the president continued, tribute was not fully paid to those who performed the feat in the rear. Lukashenko noted the correctness of the fact that the unveiled monument eliminates this omission and pays tribute to the memory of civilians and children who could not defend themselves.
«We cannot change the past, but we have the power to protect the future. Let this memorial protect our common historical memory, the brotherhood of peoples, the strength of the indestructible unity of nations united in the fight against world evil and defeated it,» he said.