Kochanova: humanity will be able to defeat the brown plague only by uniting efforts
The republican campaign – Belarus Remembers. We Remember Everyone – was held on the eve of Victory Day of May 9th, as is traditional. Commemorative events were organised countrywide, aiming to disclose the tragic pages of the Great Patriotic War history, to generate the categorical rejection of fascism and resolute readiness to resist this evil among people. Members of the Council of the Republic, headed by Chairperson Natalya Kochanova, laid flowers at the Masyukovshchina memorial complex, where more than 80 thousand innocent martyrs were buried.
“We have come to this holy place to honour the memory of those whose courage and indomitable fortitude defeated the inhuman regime of the Nazi dungeons, and to pay tribute and gratitude to their liberators,” Ms. Kochanova said. “It is terrible even to speak about the inhuman conditions which people driven into fascist captivity had to face: high fences with barbed wire and watchtowers, wooden barracks, gas chambers and crematoria furnaces working around the clock — those were real death factories. Have you ever seen the eyes of people who survived in concentration camps which were the most cruel and sophisticated atrocity of fascism? There is an eternal sign of trouble, a warning for all mankind in them.”
As noted by Ms. Kochanova, the biographies of the prisoners who preserved their morale are the lessons of true courage for present and future generations, for all mankind. “Not every healthy adult man managed to endure hard labour, hunger, cold, terrible medical experiments and physical abuse. What can we say about women, old people, children? Meanwhile, every fifth prisoner was a child. The murders never stopped, being of a mass production character,” she said.
Ms. Kochanova added that, during WWII, 12m people in 30 countries of the world were killed, “Fascists hoped to break humanity not only physically, but also spiritually, hoping to educate submissive slaves of the Hitler regime. It did not work out. Only by preserving the memory of those terrible events, passing it from one generation another, grieving for the dead and praying for those survived in that hell, we can hope that such events will never happen again. Belarus remembers everyone, and let the whole world remember. After all, only by uniting its efforts, humanity will be able to celebrate the final victory over the brown plague.”
