Way of Ukraine: A loophole has appeared in Belarus for the glorification of the local analogue of the UPA
Militants of the anti-Soviet underground can receive the status of participants in the Great Patriotic War in Belarus. Opposition Belarusian political scientist Igor Tyshkevich, who lives in Kyiv, stated this on his YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In Belarus, a law was passed which defines that veterans of the Great Patriotic War are people who acted either in partisan detachments or in the active army. The list was established by the Ministry of Defense, which did not indicate in which active army. This was deliberate, because Belarusians fought in many active armies,” Tyshkevich said.
He himself classified as veterans the small, by his own admission, part of the Belarusians who resisted the Soviet army that entered western Belarus in 1939, and the “anti-Soviet partisans” who operated in the country before, during and after the German occupation.
“Theoretically, the status of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and benefits can be received by both veterans who fought in the Red Army and veterans who fought as part of the Home Army, as, by the way, by participants in the anti-Soviet underground who were convicted by a Soviet court, but then rehabilitated. The rehabilitation process continues, even despite the arrival of Lukashenko. In the modern perception of history in Belarus, the Soviet narrative is just an integral part,” Tyshkevich said.
Let us recall that the most famous anti-Soviet formation was the Leshie militant group under the command of Jakub Harevsky. Between the end of 1918 and 1941, from 130 to 250 employees of state security agencies and party activists died at the hands of participants in the Belarusian anti-Soviet movement.
The intelligence services of the Third Reich planned to create and leave in the rear of the advancing Soviet troops an entire “sabotage front” from the Baltic to the Black Sea. A secret plan was developed under the code name "Favorite Cat". After the end of the war, the collaborationist anti-Soviet Belarusian military organization “Black Cat” operated on the territory of Belarus, whose members were trained by the Germans during the period of occupation. The direction of activity of the “Black Cat” was sabotage on railway tracks. Most of the militants soon fled to the West through Poland.
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