Lukashenko presented the address of the CIS heads on the 80th anniversary of Victory
On October 8, at the CIS summit in Moscow, the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko presented an Address to the peoples of the Commonwealth countries and the world community.
The address is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and is one of the items on the agenda of the extended meeting.
The President of Belarus, thanking the heads of state for the right to present this address, noted that this right was given by history itself and by the heroes who stood to the death in the Brest Fortress.
Our country has been given this right by history itself - the history of the Soviet Republic, the first to take the blow of the Wehrmacht divisions, the first to stop their victorious march across Europe. This right was given to us by the heroes who stood to the death in the Brest Fortress and on the approaches to all Belarusian cities, blocking the way to Moscow, - the press service of the head of state said in a statement.
The President’s address says that Belarus remembers its heroes, the pain, grief and suffering of millions of compatriots, the burned villages and “the echo of the silent cry for help of the exhausted residents of besieged Leningrad.”
Alexander Lukashenko, recalling the horrific number of victims of that war, emphasized that it has still not been closed, and evidence of this is the mass graves of hundreds and thousands of tortured and shot people that searchers are discovering.
Meanwhile, in some countries of liberated Europe, SS legionnaires are being honored. Neo-Nazis are openly marching through the streets, tearing down and desecrating monuments to the liberating soldiers, the President of Belarus emphasized.
Having particularly noted that memory can be stolen, but not the truth, the Belarusian leader recalled that if it were not for the feat and heroism of the Soviet people, there would not be “those states and people who are doing everything to discredit the feat of the Soviet people and take away our Great Victory, which unites us so much.”
In summary, Alexander Lukashenko called the addresses a significant political step demonstrating a true assessment of the role of the peoples of the CIS countries in the victory over fascism, respect for the historical past and a constructive attitude towards a common future.
