Tsikhanouskaya: The meaning of today's date is not in parades and military equipment on the streets
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya addressed Belarusians on the occasion of May 9.
Photo: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's press service
"May 9 is a day of remembrance. A day when we remember those who defeated Nazism in World War II, and those who never returned home. In Belarus, there is no family that the war bypassed. We remember this feat, and that is why it is especially painful to see how the memory of this terrible war is used as a propaganda tool to justify a new one," says the address.
The meaning of this date is not in parades and military equipment on the streets. Our grandparents and great-grandparents wanted their children and grandchildren to live normal, peaceful lives. To go to school, to love, to work, to build their families. They certainly did not fight for Belarusian land to become a platform for foreign aggression, for foreign troops to stand here, or for our country to be made a source of threat.
Belarus has always been and must remain a country that does not threaten its neighbors and does not allow itself to be used against others.
Today, next to us, Ukraine is again paying a terrible price for peace – for the right to live on its own land, to speak its own language, to build its own life. We see how war takes lives, destroys homes, separates families.
And that is why the memory of the war must remind us to cherish life, and not to accustom children to military uniforms, to be fascinated by weapons, and to normalize violence. Memory must teach responsibility. To teach compassion, honesty, respect for people and for neighbors. To teach a simple truth: war is a tragedy, and peace is something that must be built together.
Today I bow my head to all the heroes, to the fallen and victims of this war. And I very much want the best memory of them to be Belarus, where human life is the highest value," noted Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
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К тому же разница между 8 и 9 мая обусловлена разницей часовых поясов при подписании Акта о капитуляции Германии в 1945 году. В Берлине это произошло поздно вечером 8 мая, когда в Москве уже наступило 9 мая.
А если брать за основу московское время, то и войну следовало закончить штурмом Москвы, а не Берлина!)