Second World war victims commemorated in Minsk
Commemoration of victims of the Second World war took place at Vaiskovyja cemetery in Minsk in the evening on September 1 - the day when Germany attacked Poland in 1939, thus starting the world war.
The participants of the commemoration, organized by the steering committee of the solidarity movement "Razam", put flowers and lighted oil lamps to the graves of warriors who died during liberation of Minsk from the Nazi in Summer 1944, as well as to the graves of Belarusian poets Janka Kupala and Jakub Kolas. They also honoured them with a minute of silence, informs BelaPAN.
The Chairman of the steering committee of the solidarity movement "Razam" Viachaslau Siuchyk stressed that the victory over fascism had been achieved at the cost of lives of many Belarusians and people born in Belarus, who served in the armies of different countries of anti-Hitler coalition at different fronts, including those in Europe, Asia and North Africa. According to his words, in spite of the fact that two totalitarian regimes - stalinism and nazism - faced each other in Belarus, Belarusians survived and showed the whole world an example of bravery and self-sacrifice, which they inherited from their heroic past.
Regional ethnographer Ilya Kopyl stated that the war started by Hitler and Stalin resulted in huge losses. The fact that 6 million of soldiers were considered missing, leaving their families without pension, as well as directing of millions of former Soviet prisoners of war to GULAG camps reveals the real attitude of Stalin's authorities to a man during the years of war, said Kopyl. According to him, Russia learned no lessons from the war, which is shown on the example of occupation of Georgian lands of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Russian troops, as well as splitting of Moldova and creating of Moldovan Transdniestrian Republic.
The participants of the commemoration, organized by the steering committee of the solidarity movement "Razam", put flowers and lighted oil lamps to the graves of warriors who died during liberation of Minsk from the Nazi in Summer 1944, as well as to the graves of Belarusian poets Janka Kupala and Jakub Kolas. They also honoured them with a minute of silence, informs BelaPAN.
The Chairman of the steering committee of the solidarity movement "Razam" Viachaslau Siuchyk stressed that the victory over fascism had been achieved at the cost of lives of many Belarusians and people born in Belarus, who served in the armies of different countries of anti-Hitler coalition at different fronts, including those in Europe, Asia and North Africa. According to his words, in spite of the fact that two totalitarian regimes - stalinism and nazism - faced each other in Belarus, Belarusians survived and showed the whole world an example of bravery and self-sacrifice, which they inherited from their heroic past.
Regional ethnographer Ilya Kopyl stated that the war started by Hitler and Stalin resulted in huge losses. The fact that 6 million of soldiers were considered missing, leaving their families without pension, as well as directing of millions of former Soviet prisoners of war to GULAG camps reveals the real attitude of Stalin's authorities to a man during the years of war, said Kopyl. According to him, Russia learned no lessons from the war, which is shown on the example of occupation of Georgian lands of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Russian troops, as well as splitting of Moldova and creating of Moldovan Transdniestrian Republic.
