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Prime minister: We should always remember the courage of the people during the Great Patriotic War

MINSK, 22 June (BelTA) – Belarusians should always remember what trials the people had to go through during the Great Patriotic War. Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko made the relevant statement as he participated in a flower laying ceremony in the memorial complex Trostenets on 22 June, BelTA has learned.

Roman Golovchenko said: “I think on the day of the 80th anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War all the citizens of our country feel the same. They feel sorrow and recall those who fell on battlefields and those who perished in concentration camps. As we build our lives today, we should always remember what our country and our people had to go through. The hardest trials were their fate. We have to remember the courage and heroism our nation demonstrated in the course of overcoming those trials. We have to remember what sacrifices the feat cost in order to always be worthy of the memory of those, who went through horrors of that war and in order not to fail them as we build modern and independent Belarus.”

The prime minister pointed out that attempts are being made to rewrite history. “Revisionism is not a new phenomenon. The eagerness to rewrite history or cast it in a light that benefits some parties is widespread. When descendants of those, who participated in the aggression against our country, start imposing their own views on us from abroad, how can we respond except reject it? We just have to deliver our truth,” he stressed.

“Although the majority stayed true to their oaths during the war, some turned traitor and participated in the genocide of the Belarusian people. We have to demonstrate who they truly were to those, who are trying to present those people as fighters for some bright future,” Roman Golovchenko stated.

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