The Belarusian-Russian patriotic forum – We Live and Remember – gathered young people with an active civic position at the Belarusian State Medical University
As noted by Prosecutor General Andrei Shved in his report on the progress of the criminal investigation into the genocide of the population of Belarus during the Great Patriotic War, the country has been the scene of brutal wars for many centuries. According to various estimates, over the past 500-600 years, more than 100 armed conflicts have taken place on Belarus’ territory.
“The events of August 2020 forced us to take a different look at the importance of preserving historical memory. Earlier, we – the descendants of the victors – could not even imagine that fascism, Nazism and neo-Nazism would become part of the ideological platform of those who came to overthrow the legal power in our country,” Mr. Shved said.
As noted by the Prosecutor General, more than one generation of young people has been missed, and the propaganda machine of Western countries has done its job: Belarusian neo-Nazis who had been trained in camps in Ukraine, the Baltic States and Poland headed the street militants in 2020.
Could we have imagined that punishers, sadists, executioners would be elevated to the rank of heroes, that the memory of our ancestors who won the greatest victory at the cost of their lives would be erased.
Mr. Shved addressed those present, “In some countries, monuments to the liberator-soldiers who saved not only these countries from the brown plague, but also the ethnic groups there are being demolished. 600 thousand Soviet soldiers died while liberating Poland. Poles have already forgotten that the plans of fascist Germany – developed long before the attack – envisaged no place in the territories they planned to occupy for such an ethnic group as Poles, and actually Slavs, Belarusians, Russians, Gypsies and Jews. Poles have forgotten that the plans of fascist Germany never included the preservation of Poland as a state. They are now cynically destroying and humiliating the memory of those who saved them.”
The Prosecutor General stressed that the investigation of the criminal case of the genocide of the Belarusian people is important for understanding the true face of Western ideology, when one country or group of countries considers itself better and more advanced than other states.
