Belarusian authorities wanted to consolidate the memory of the Great Patriotic War in the text of the new Constitution of the country. So officials want to protect Belarusians from attempts to distort the history and heroization of Nazism. The corresponding plans proposed the head of the lower chamber of the Parliament of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko, reports “BelTA”.
“The Wide Public Dialogue, held in the Republic of Belarus, has revealed the need to consolidate the constitution at the level of the inadmissibility of the distortion of the history and heroization of Nazism,” said Andreichenko on the Historical Memory: The Genocide of the Belarusian People, said. The event is timed to the eve of the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide and Punishment for it.
Parliamentarians stressed the importance of changes in the country’s legislation due to the exacerbated foreign policy conditions. According to Andreichenko, the memory of the events of the Great Patriotic War is important in connection with the migration crisis at the Belarusian-Polish border and the response to it in the European Union. “Hybrid war against Belarus, the unwillingness of the European Union to recognize the truth about the causes of the migration crisis, NATO military preparations do not leave doubts that the world came up to a very dangerous draw,” he warned.
The memory of the war is regularly used by the Belarusian authorities as political rhetoric in response to charges of European countries. In the summer, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the Germans “should still stand on his knees before the Belarusian people and pray.” So Lukashenko responded to the introduction of regular sanctions against Belarus.