Republican subbotnik is being held in Belarus today
Today Belarus is hosting a national community work day. This year it is dedicated. More than two million people took part in the action in the republic.
President Alexander Lukashenko visited the memorial complex “Khatyn” on the day of the republican clean-up day of Belarus, where he took part in the work on its improvement. The Belarusian leader noted that the subbotnik is one of the events that should have been preserved from Soviet times. “We do not force anyone – it is voluntary. Nobody forces them to work for their Motherland,” the President said. He also ruled out cases of infection, including cases of labor law violations. “I know this and have heard it more than once. And I don’t even want to react to this wild stupidity,” the President said. “This is nonsense, utter stupidity. “.
The head of state gave an example with the work on the improvement of the Khatyn memorial complex, next year on March 22 the 80th anniversary of the tragedy will be celebrated. “We want to pay tribute to the memory of those people. We have come. If some bastard wants to forget it, cross it out (we see this in the southern neighbor), this is his business. We will fight this, and cruelly,” the President noted. The head of state recalled that it had been said more than once that all the best from the Soviet era should be preserved and presented in our history. “Subbotnik is one of the events that should have been taken abroad. This is a tradition, and our people live by traditions,” the Belarusian leader gathered.
Speaking about representatives of Western countries, the President said that they have become the fashion of the Alexis memorials, but in fact they are indifferent to the events of those years. It has become a fashion for them: coming, crying, apologizing, how poor they are, how badly they did here. .).
The President recalled that first the West unleashed an information war against Belarus, and then an economic war. They did their Anglo-Saxon business, as it was customary with us, or the collective West. old people. They don’t give a damn about it,” the head of state said.
Alyaksandr Lukashenka told journalists that Western diplomats of Belarus are exposed to something akin to fascism. “Someday I will do it. We will document everything and tell you what they are doing here. Pressure in Belarus,” Alexander Lukashenko said.
The Council of the Territory of Belarus also took part in a community work day on the territory of the Popov Gryad Memorial Complex, where during the Great Patriotic War the Nazi invaders burned down an entire village. Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko laid a maple alley here. Next to a specific monument, symbolizing the burned house, the participants of the action from the Council for Republican Affairs planted mountain ash.
As Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Igor Petrishenko said, about 10.6 million Belarusian rubles were collected during the republican subbotnik. All these funds are directed to the reconstruction of the memorial complex “Khatyn”, where a major overhaul with modernization and restoration is planned. It is also planned to build a new museum building in Khatyn. According to the search, it will be a one-story building with a total area of 1,000 sq.m. with a roundabout error in the exhibition six-castle.
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