Alexander Lukashenko: The West will not be able to wipe out the feat of the victorious generation

9 мая 2022
Alexander Lukashenko: The West will not be able to wipe out the feat of the victorious generation

Traditionally, Victory Square became the center of celebrations in Minsk on May 9. About 20 thousand people gathered in a procession of remembrance from October Square to the Monument of Victory. People of different ages came with portraits of their grandfathers and great grandfathers, their heroes, and what is especially encouraging, very young Belarusians. 

For our President and his family it is a sacred duty to be with them this day, to thank veterans for their incredible feat of arms. It is indeed a great holiday. And, as Alexander Lukashenko rightly remarked, "today it has a shadow of pain and sorrow. Near us, in close Ukraine, the situation is turbulent. We see how hatred is deliberately stirred up between our peoples, the nations that we have always called brotherly. We see the image of Russia and Belarus as aggressors, attempts to destroy economies and threats of new sanctions. 

But the true instigators of the conflict in Ukraine and the real aggressors are well known. It is to them, those politicians in Washington and Brussels, that the Belarusian head of state addressed today. Whatever attempts they make across the ocean and in the west, they will fail. It will not be possible to destroy our states and to undermine the feat of arms of the generation of victors.

Belarus remembers and will never allow desecrate the sacred memory of the Soviet soldiers who, at the cost of their own lives, gave us this peaceful life and this peace. 

From year to year on this important day, the head of the state is always in Victory Square together with his sons. Perhaps, it's a tradition in the heart of every Belarusian to come here for generations, to bring flowers.

Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus:

Dear veterans! Dear compatriots and guests of Belarus! Speaking purely as a human being I would like to address you and thank all of you who have come to this sacred square. They should see there and know that we have not forgotten, that Belarus remembers. And as long as we come here with our children, it shows that Belarus will always remember. I congratulate you on the Great Victory Day. The victory that has preserved the Belarusian nation and predetermined the way of development of all generations of the Belarusians, has become an integral part of the common national idea.

Different republics have contributed to the Great Victory. The deliverance from the brown plague cost the lives of 30 million people and this date became sacred for different countries. But what is happening now? In the West they try to convince us, especially the younger generation that this victory is in the past, it allegedly means nothing. There are attempts to rewrite history, to take away or even desecrate our victory. 

Alexander Lukashenko addressed the peoples of the Western countries

Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus:

Knowing and understanding the place of Belarus and my place in the system of coordinates of today's planet, I, nevertheless, as a representative of the victorious nation, address the peoples of the Western world. I would like to underscore: my today's address is to you, the people of the Western countries. Your politicians have done much to make you forget to whom the world owes its liberation from fascism. Today not many people living outside Belarus and Russia know that the Soviet soldier, the Soviet Union, won the Second World War, that the second front, which today is much talked about in the West, was opened only in the summer of 1944, when the victory of the USSR became apparent. 

The President stressed that no matter how strange it might seem, but the current rulers of the world saw the victorious offensive of the Red Army, which led to the defeat of Nazi Germany, as a threat. Therefore, a course was immediately taken to demonize the Soviet Union and the Slavic world. 

"After the victorious May, the Soviet Union, the United States and the other victors together, unanimously condemned Nazism at Nuremberg in a war criminals tribunal. And all were certain that the inhuman ideology of racial superiority had been crushed and that its black shadow would never again arise over our planet. But what do we see today? The medieval struggle for territory and resources continues. Only the crusades have been replaced by the expansion of foreign funds. We see the same aggression now under the slogans of preserving human rights and some kind of sustainable development of countries," said the President. 

Alexander Lukashenko also pointed out that, in fact, Western politicians do not want to recognize the fact that billions of people on Earth have been living by their own laws for centuries. And they are trying to weaken those who live and think differently in order to create the world according to their own vision.