Lukashenko called the Great Patriotic War “not our” war
The scandal caused by the words of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko about the Great Patriotic War in an interview with the Kazakh news agency Khabar is spreading.
“Belarus, and Kazakhstan too, they have always been under someone’s whip, as I often say. Someone urged us on, someone tried to force us to our knees. Especially in Belarus. All these wars are not our wars.
The Patriotic War of 1812, Napoleon walked to Moscow and returned back through Belarus. Everything was looted, everything was destroyed. Then the First World War. It got to the point where only a narrow strip remained of Belarus - part of the eastern provinces went to Russia, and up to Minsk they went to Poland under the Treaty of Riga.
Then the Second World War, we have the Great Patriotic War. Belarus was completely wiped off the face of the earth. These were not our wars. We, nevertheless, suffered from grief,” Lukashenko said.
These words caused outrage in Russia.
"Began. Remember this. Ruling nationalism has stepped on the path to massacre,” Modest Kolerov, a former official of the Russian Presidential Administration, commented on Facebook.
He was supported by political scientist, deputy director of the Institute of CIS Countries, Igor Shishkin.
“This is not a “cloudiness.” This is a natural and inevitable result of Belarusian independence from Russia. Unfortunately, this is not a prognosis, it is an absolutely objective diagnosis,” Shishkin wrote.
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