Lukashenko: Nazis lost more soldiers during their first days in Belarus than in 2 years of marching across Europe
Our heroes stood their ground and won. They taught Europe a lesson that we thought would be learned, but Western elites are actually learning-disabled. That was stated by President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko at the military parade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War in Minsk on May 9th.
Aleksandr Lukashenko reminded that the Nazis lost more soldiers and officers during their first days in Belarus than in two years of marching across Europe, “One million three hundred natives of Belarus fought in the ranks of the Red Army, and almost half a thousand of them became the Soviet Union heroes. About a million partisans fought behind enemy lines. More than eight hundred thousand people's avengers operated on the territory of our republic. Over the course of a month, 16 partisan brigades successfully resisted the superior forces of the Wehrmacht and SS, who were helped by traitors: Latvian legionnaires, Ukrainian policemen, Russian Vlasov fighters and battalions of Belarusian collaborators.”
According to the President, people’s resistance forces were active on our land during the years of occupation. “No other country in the world ever knew such a widespread, multinational movement of partisans and underground fighters,” he stressed.
The Head of State added that our ‘brothers’ – representatives of more than seventy nations and nationalities – fought together with Belarusians. “It was a real second front, which struggle largely predetermined the fate of the major battles of the Great Patriotic War. Our heroes stood ground and won. They taught Europe a lesson that we thought would be learned, but Western elites are actually learning-disabled,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stated.
