The plague of Nazism gained followers among the traitors and came close to the Belarusian borders. This is stated in the address of Alexander Lukashenko to his compatriots on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the tragedy in Khatyn.
“On a mournful date – March 22 – we remember the inhabitants of the village of Khatyn, thousands of our other villages and cities, brutally destroyed by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War. The war that unceremoniously broke into our house and took every third Belarusian away,” the head of state noted. “80 years ago, a sunny spring day was scorched by the fire of the merciless reprisal of Nazi punishers against civilians,” the appeal says.
The Belarusian leader stressed that every corner of Belarus has a history of its own Khatyn.
“It hurts to realize how many new lives were never born, how many children did not grow up, how many destinies were cut short due to crazy ideas, blind hatred and bloody cruelty. Years later, bitterness and anger do not subside. Especially today, when the plague of Nazism has found followers among mercenaries, traitors and criminals and has crept close to our borders. The Belarusians had and still have one answer for them – the spirit of popular resistance. His symbol is an unconquered man, who, having risen alive from the fire, with the body of a dead son in his arms, through time carries an eternal curse to fascism. Alexander Lukashenko said.
The President of Belarus also noted that “the duty of those living today to the fallen is to expose those responsible for the mass genocide, carefully preserve the memory of those terrible events and prevent trouble from breaking out again on our holy land.”
“Blessed memory to all the dead! Eternal glory to their immortal feat in the name of peace for future generations! the Belarusian leader stressed.
Recall that on March 22, 1943, the Nazis burned the Belarusian village of Khatyn together with its 149 inhabitants, of which 75 were children under 16 years old. Later, on the site of the village in memory of the dead, the memorial complex “Khatyn” was created. Commemorative events are held annually in Belarus on the day of the burning of Khatyn, which has become a symbol of thousands of other Belarusian villages destroyed by the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War.
