Lukashenko: we will remind the West how, back in 1941, the Belarusian land turned into one big death camp
Back in 1941, the Belarusian land turned into one big death camp – as reminded by the President of Belarus, while speaking at today’s requiem rally held at the Khatyn Memorial Complex
"Until now, we have tried not to burden with a sense of guilt the children and grandchildren of the executioners who came to our land to finally resolve the issue with Eastern Slavs," Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “We have not yet emphasised that most of the countries of Western Europe stood under the banner of Hitler's Germany, and the world capital paid for that campaign. They are imposing sanctions against us today, they have unleashed an economic and information war. However, we have not forgotten – and we will also remind the heirs of the punishers – how, back in 1941, the Belarusian land turned into one big death camp, how people were burned, crushed by tanks, drowned and shot with direct fire from heavy guns, how they buried children alive as they were saving bullets, and how they sprayed toxic substances over our cities and villages.”
The President noted that we are mourning today the inhabitants of almost eleven thousand of our villages and towns that were partially or completely burned. “We are mourning all the innocent victims of Nazism, all the heroes who failed to return home from that war. These are 50 million inhabitants of our planet, and most of them are our Soviet people. Eternal memory to them,” he stressed.
The participants of the event honoured the memory of the victims with a minute of silence.
