Lukashenko calls for confronting Nazi ideas and preventing their expansion

Minsk (ST): Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko called for confronting Nazi ideas and preventing their expansion again.

Novosti quoted Lukashenko as saying in a speech addressed to his compatriots on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the (Khatyn) massacre committed by Nazi Germany forces during World War II: “We remember the residents of the village of Khatyn and thousands of other villages and cities that were brutally destroyed by the Nazis, and after years the bitterness and anger did not subside, especially today when the plague of Nazism found adherents among mercenaries and criminals and crept close to our borders.”

Lukashenko added, “For the adherents of the ideas of Nazism, the Belarusians had and still have one answer, which is the spirit of national resistance,” noting that “the duty of the living towards the dead is to expose the perpetrators of the genocide, preserve the memory of those horrific events, and prevent problems from erupting again in our land.”

Khatyn is a Belarusian village located 54 kilometers northwest of Minsk, and was burned on March 22, 1943 by the Nazi invaders.

K.Q.