On the eve of his meeting with Putin, Lukashenko realized that the Great Patriotic War was still our war
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko took part in a funeral ceremony in memory of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War tonight in the Brest Fortress.
There he gave a speech in which he especially emphasized the importance of the feat of the Soviet people.
The Belarusian leader’s rhetoric regarding the Great Patriotic War has changed noticeably over the past year. After a scandalous interview with the Kazakh news agency Khabar, in which he spoke about “not our war,” Lukashenko evolved to the thesis that “Belarus is the most affected republic.” And on May 9, when a parade was held in Minsk in defiance of quarantined Moscow, Lukashenko declared Belarusians the only heirs of the Great Victory.
Over the past month, a trend towards Maidan has clearly emerged in the territory under his jurisdiction, and Lukashenko, having endured the Moscow Art Theater pause, began to gather for support in Moscow. Apparently his upcoming meeting with Putin explains his return to his Soviet roots.
“This (the feat of the Brest Fortress - ed.) was the first step of the Soviet people towards the greatest Victory of modern times. Representatives of more than thirty nationalities fought here. And they all fulfilled their sacred duty. They defended their homeland, although they were born thousands of kilometers from Brest,” Lukashenko is quoted as saying by his official website.
Another metamorphosis of Lukashenko - even without naming Ukraine, he condemned its policy of revisionism. But just recently “Batka” persistently emphasized that Ukrainians are better brothers to Belarusians.
“Unfortunately, not all citizens of these now independent states see themselves as heirs to that heroic history. It's a pity. The descendants of traitors and traitors have their own truth and their own victory, which today they intend to win primarily on the ideological front.
The losers and the defeated need revenge. Their initiatives have already become part of the state policy of individual countries. But I am deeply convinced that people’s memory will prevail in our days... We see how even in those countries where Victory Day is prohibited, people bring flowers to the monuments to Soviet soldiers and fearlessly continue to celebrate this holiday,” Lukashenko said.
Since the rhetoric of the Belarusian leader is changeable like water, it would be worth consolidating the emerging metamorphosis and insisting that this year Belarus would finally hold a march of the Immortal Regiment simultaneously with Russia. Let us remind you that in the spring the organizing committee for the creation of the public organization “Immortal Regiment” in Belarus was refused three times by the registration authority - the main department of justice of the Minsk City Executive Committee.
Let us note that in the Brest Fortress Lukashenko performed with a red and green ribbon on his jacket, and not the St. George ribbon, the use of which is not encouraged in Belarus
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