New Year’s address of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to the Belarusian people
New Year’s address to the Belarusian people
December 31, 2021
My dear compatriots!
Dear guests of Belarus!
In a few minutes, 2021 will become another turned page in the life of each of us, in the history of our country.
We are writing this story, realizing our plans, making our dreams come true, giving birth to children and creating a family. And I say thank you to everyone who lived every day of the outgoing year with love for people and native land, respect for the memory of their people and national traditions.
To you – peasants and workers, doctors and teachers, people in uniform, scientists and cultural workers, journalists and athletes, leaders and work collectives.
This is how – painstakingly, day after day – our sovereign state has been building and flourishing for 30 years. Looking back at the early 90s, we have a lot to be proud of. We have built a modern, stable and successful country. Despite the challenges of the time, we confidently set new goals and move forward.
Calmly, without fuss, we grow bread, teach children, fight for the health of the nation, create coziness and comfort in cities and villages, introduce modern technologies into production and design objects of the future.
And we have done a lot this year: we built new houses, roads, bridges, comfortable residential neighborhoods, opened schools, kindergartens, hospitals, clinics, presented the country with bright projects and sports victories.
All this is the result of your labor, your dedication. And the answer to those who do not want to see our young independent state on the world map.
But it will be! Also because today courageous people are born on the Belarusian soil, ready to work, fight, and if necessary – give their lives for their country, for their people.
We will always thank our doctors for saving the little Belarusian who brought his brother out of the fire.
Military pilots will respond with pain and pride on their last flight.
We will bring up our sons in memory of the fighter of the “Alpha” group, who honorably completed his last mission.
All of them are the same age as our independence, strong, courageous, loving their Motherland, real heroes of modern Belarus.
They have become on a par with the generation of the winners of the Great Patriotic War. They left in history their worthy example of true patriotism and greatness of the soul.
I am also proud of everyone who has shown this year, so rare in our cruel age, humanity, mercy, true humanism towards people who have lost their homeland and are forced to look for a new abode.
We did this because we understand well the great value of peace, home and bread. The value of what they themselves fought for more than once in their history.
Belarus remembers the lessons of the past. Therefore, in the outgoing year, we together revived the tradition of celebrating the unification of Belarusian lands. National Unity Day is a state holiday – one of the symbols of the formation of the Belarusian national state.
This is our land, this is our destiny, this is our history. And only we will do it. This cannot be changed as long as the unquenchable flame of love for the Motherland burns in each of us.
Setting new goals for ourselves, we know that it is not in our power to predict everything, but it is in our power to determine the main thing for ourselves in the coming year.
This is what should be in the memory of generations and in the heart of everyone. These are our real origins – the life-giving force that has fed and shaped our and moral world for centuries. In it, and today we draw wisdom, experience and faith in ourselves.
Therefore, 2022 will be the Year of Historical Remembrance.
For without respect for the past, without traditions, there is no future, there is no state and there is no people.
Dear Belarusians!
A few seconds separate us from the new year 2022. They carry us into the future with great speed.
Everyone now recalls the most emotional moments of the outgoing 2021. We thank him for all the good that is with us, for the experience we have gained, for our loved ones, relatives and friends who were a support in difficult, joyful and happy days.
This is the most invaluable wealth, a guarantee that everything we have conceived, our best expectations and hopes will come true, and Belarus will become even more beautiful and richer.
The main thing is that everyone is healthy, there is peace on our land, and a contract, happiness and love reigned in your family.
I congratulate you on the occasion! Happy new year 2022!