Lukashenka Sets Note Of Infamy On Himself
29- KIRYL IVANOU
- 9.09.2024, 10:55
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This is how the history will remember him.
On September 8, Lukashenka congratulated veteran tankers, servicemen of mechanised formations, tank military units of the Armed Forces and tank repair enterprises of the country on Tankers' Day.
‘The current generation of tank soldiers keeps sacredly the victorious traditions of the heroic generation of winners, constantly improving their professionalism and tactics of using formidable combat vehicles in modern conditions,’ the congratulatory message reads.
The parasitising of the ruler and his propaganda on the subject of the Second World War is not news of today. But after February 2022, the exploitation of the heroic past gained new accents and became frankly cynical.
The regime declared its opponents to be direct descendants of Nazi collaborators, and itself, naturally, to be the heir to victory.
And if the first statement was initially not to hold water, the justification of its claims to the right to inherit the ‘victorious traditions of the heroic generation of the victors’ has been questioned by the authorities themselves with enviable regularity.
Not only Russians and Belarusians were fighting shoulder to shoulder in that war. But also Ukrainians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Kazakhs, Georgians and other peoples of the USSR. Can today's army of Belarus, which has become, in fact, the rear base of the invasion army, be considered the heir to the victory?
What kind of traditions are we talking about after ammunition and armoured vehicles left Belarusian storage bases in echelons to kill the descendants of those with whom our ancestors once fought in the same trenches?
What is the continuity of today's Belarusian troops, which at the first whim of the Kremlin go to the border with Lithuania or towards Ukraine?
What right has the one who has turned his own country into a passing yard and put it under the threat of participating in someone else's war to talk about inheriting ‘the glorious traditions of the grandfathers’?
The man who, for the sake of preserving his own power, radically changed the image of the country, turning it from a winner into a co-aggressor, into a constant source of threats to its neighbours. It is this shameful page that will go down in history, and not the pretentious far-fetched claims about the victory of 80 years ago.
Kiryl Ivanou, Salidarnasts
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