President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko assess the repression, which occurred during the reign of the Soviet leader of Joseph Stalin. He spoke about it at a meeting on countering the sanctions measures, transfers BelTA.
The head of the republic called on to “figure out” with the “anti-state position” by the leaders within the executive authorities of the country, but at the same time stressed that in this case there should be no gentlemen and “rises, as in the 1930s.” / P>
At the same time, Lukashenko noted that he was not confident in the correctness of the interpretation of the actions of Soviet power in that period as repressive. “All these facts in history are used as to whom it is beneficial. But we will assume that in 1937-1939 it was not important with our story: someone had enough someone, put it, and so on. War began, and the generals are sitting in prison – I had to From there to get it, and they were the first heroes, defending the Soviet Union. So, so that we did not have it, “he said.
According to him, the republic’s authorities must “do business”, and not “catch alternatives” who expressed any support for the Belarusian opposition. “But those who violated the law, pushed people to violate the law (we also have a lot of them), here we should figure it out. But it is necessary to do it carefully, carefully, there should be no campaign, for we will again turn from the back in any way. then barbarians, “added the president.
In August, during a press conference, Lukashenko proposed to put a monument to Stalin. According to him, so Belarusians could express their gratitude to the Soviet leader for the accession of Western Belarus to the USSR in 1939.