The meeting of Alexander Lukashenko with activists of the BRSM Youth Union in the Palace of Independence

The meeting of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko with activists of the BRSM Youth Union, the continuators of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol) took place in the Palace of Independence in Minsk on 29 October.

The event was held to mark 100 years of the Komsomol, with was directly linked to the history of the Komsomol movement in Belarus, and the development of the country as a whole. During the war years, members of the youth movement actively assisted the state in economic and cultural construction and the fight against chaos. They heroically fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. For courage, commitment and heroism shown by Komsomol members and youth of Belarus in the ranks of the Red Army and partisan units in the fight against the Nazi invaders, the Lenin Komsomol of Belarus received the Order of the Red Banner on 22 September 1945.

Later, thousands of young Komsomol members participated in the construction of the Bereza and Lukoml state district power plants, Grodno-based Azot Production Association and the Svetlogorsk Synthetic Fiber Plant, the Polotsk and Mozyr Oil Refineries, the Belarusian Tire Plant and the Brest Carpet and Cloth Factory, three potassium plants in Soligorsk. They also helped with the reclamation of lands in Belarusian Polesye. Belarus’ Komsomol members took part in the construction of housing and cultural facilities in Western Siberia, the Urals, Karelia and Yakutia, and also the construction of VAZ, KamAZ, and the Baikal-Amur Mainline.

The event in the Palace of Independence also featured an exhibition organized in the form of interactive platforms. The exposition highlighted the activity of the BRSM Youth Union nowadays. The president spoke with winners of the national youth competitions and projects, the best representatives of student and youth teams.