The sixth book of the project “Without statute of limitations. Belarus”
The final book of the massive project of the National Archives of the Republic Belarus and the Department of Archives and Production of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus, in connection with which documented crimes against the Nazis and their accomplices against the world population in the occupied territory of the BSSR during the Great Patriotic War were collected, was presented today in Logoisk. The site as Logoyshchyna was not killed by accident: this region has a rich military history, many facts from which we learned just recently. In addition, the region is part of Minsk regionnamely, the materials of the last book are devoted.
irrefutable evidence
Project work lasted several years and it is important that it ends in Year of the chest. Thanks to its implementation, scientific, pedagogical, ideological, as well as all those who are interested in the authority of the war, gained access to valuable archival documents that could previously only be obtained upon request, or, as it turned out, were secret. All that formed the basis of the six-volume publications was documentary evidence of the crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices.
And in the vaults of the Belarusian State Archives film and photo documents collected valuable materials from photographic documentation military crimes. Thus, the tape “Burned Villages of Belarus”, which the participants of the presentation managed to find, was based on the facts about the atrocities of the Nazis and policemen in the fight against world citizens thanks to the implementation of such a plan by the “OST”. According to him, more than 75% of the Belarusian population with the territory occupied by them should be evicted by the Nazis, the remaining 25% were subject to Germanization. “Russians must die for us to live” – the general plan of the beast to evict from the universe.
The policemen, who turned entire districts into ashes, helped in the implementation of the plans. More than 420,000 houses of Belarusians burned down in the fire of conflagrations, many of them together with their relatives.
The project “Without a statute of limitations” and a selected exhibition, which took place in Logoysk.
Six of its banners tell about the history of the war in Belarus, where the most important facts and facts are succinctly conveyed. These are acts of the Extraordinary State Commission, partisan photographs, photographs. On the banner about the Minsk region, you can find information that during the war years there were 85 places of detention for the local population, and at least 1520 settlements were burned.
The book “Without a statute of limitations”, dedicated to the Minsk region, includes 395 archival the documents about natural phenomena committed in industry and ongoing investigations into the facts. In addition, it includes lists of places of mass extermination of the population, punitive operations, destruction of villages, in whole or in part.
The exhibition also tells about fascist actions to cover up military fires, for which entire teams were involved. Here you can also see footage of the executions of Nazi criminals.
The circulation of the collections is small, but everyone who wants to get acquainted with them can do it in digital form, which is available on the website of the open archive of the Republic of Belarus.
At the state level
This book is especially important for the application story in modern realities, when acquisition of historical truth is required. And the issues of its assembly and prevention will be held at the state level. politics.
“The struggle for historical truth is not only at the level of ideological or scientific discussions, history is simply being rewritten,” said Lilia Ananich, deputy of the House of Representatives of the Congress of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus. – In Europe, structures are adopting relevant documents, monuments to the history of the war appear in their cities, and the most dangerous phenomenon is the spread of Nazism. We should be proud that the country defends the historical truth and this is enshrined in its fundamental law – the Constitution.
In 2021, the Parliament adopted two Democrats – the Law on the Non-Proliferation of Nazism and the Law on the Genocide of the Belarusian People, signed in January 2022. There is no statute of limitations for war crimes, just as there is no right to leave white spots in history.
not everything is said yet
— At the beginning of 2021 Observation by the prosecutor’s office The Republic of Belarus decided to initiate a case on the genocide of the population of Belarus in the years war– said Deputy Prosecutor of the Minsk Region Mikhail Shestopalov. – To investigate the case of the war, a prosecutorial and investigative group was created, scientific support for its historians, specializing in the study of the Great Patriotic War.
Mikhail Shestopalov said that during the investigation, witnesses of atrocities are being interrogated, local historians are resorting to work, who, among other things, belong to the established places of treatment of the world population, inspect inspections and excavations. It has already been established that in the course of various punitive operations, about 3 million people in the world were neutralized. This is one third of the population of the republic. About 400 thousand people were sentenced to forced labor, tens of thousands died in captivity, unable to withstand cruel exploitation.
Currently, excavations are being carried out in the Minsk region at the sites of mass executions in the Uruchcha tract in the Minsk region. Two pits with remains were found, each containing hundreds of victims of fascism.
– More than 70 punitive operations out of 140 were carried out by the Nazis on the territory of the Minsk region. There were 260 death camps in Belarus, Mikhail Shestopalov said. – Those who died in the furnaces, the ashes were called for the fields. Unfortunately, they will change for the better. The work showed that it is full-scale, and it is extremely difficult to overestimate it.
The investigation into the crime related to the liquidation of the child population at the site of the former orphanage in the Minsk region has not been completed. More than 200 childrenwhich the Nazis showed experience, including testing the vaccine.
Excavations are planned for 2023 in at least five districts of the Minsk region.
Klondike for historians
“In the form of a six-volume book, we received valuable material for further work on the history of the history of the Great Patriotic War of Belarus,” said Aleksey Litvin, head of the department of regional history and interstate relations of the State Scientific Institution “Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences”. – And it is extremely important that this issue is of national importance. I remember how, after the 20th anniversary of the war, we began to actively perpetuate the memory of the burned villages. Scholars of history compiled lists of such specific places. When the materials came to us, we were horrified that visitors to Khatyn could not stop wandering, where after the opening there was a real pilgrimage. At that time there was no investigation of the genocide case, and the emphasis was on the feat of the people. Now the time has come to finalize what has not been done, although time has been lost. There are no those witnesses, and the veterans also quietly leave. Anything else that becomes known will be put on display in Germany. The world should know how it was in reality and the fact of the onset of the genocide. No matter how much destruction by slogans, the most important thing is the truth and facts.
A similar project “Without a statute of limitations” is also being implemented in Russian Federation. Great contribution to the restoration of truth to the Fund for Applicable Historical Research “Historical Memory”.
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