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On 22 June Belarus observes the sad day — the National Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War and the Genocide of the Belarusian People. The victory in that war came at a very high cost as Belarus lost every third resident.

My father, Mikhail Cherkashin, a Red Army Guards private soldier, who during the operation «Bagration» evacuated 450 wounded soldiers and officers to the sorting platoon, returned home with honors on April 12, 1945, after a serious injury. His Great Patriotic War took place in the 51st Guards Rifle Division. Lasting over 1,300 days, it ended shortly before the Great Victory.

In May, works by Belarusian artists — some who lived through the hardships of the Great Patriotic War and others from post-war and contemporary generations — converge in a shared exhibition space, though displayed in different halls.

Rare archival materials have been presented in Minsk at the exhibition «Belarusian Cinema on the Great Patriotic War». The exhibition is dedicated to the 80th Anniversary of Victory Day. 

Festive events on the occasion of this great date took place in all corners of the country. Not a single front-line soldier, partisan, or prisoner of the fascist concentration camps was left without attention. They also remembered the departed heroes, the victims of that war, whose memory lives not only in the names of streets and on memorial plaques, but in every team, family, in the hearts of the descendants of the victorious people. On these memorable days, all Belarusians — young and old — were involved in the large-scale celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. After all, this event, given to the world in May 1945, is the foundation of the development of our country, the spiritual core of the nation, which cannot be taken away from us or rewritten.

During a solemn assembly held on 6 May to mark the 80th anniversary of the Soviet nation’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed the importance of celebrating this date, BelTA has learned.

One of the most popular exhibits of the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War is Li-2 aircraft. It is placed on the interactive platform near the museum building and especially attracts young visitors, who gladly study the cabin and the cockpit. This year the interactive platform starts to operate on May 4.

The movies were shown as part of the national action «Every Belarusian should see it». In other countries (Russia, China, Vietnam, Serbia, Colombia, Turkey, Tajikistan, Argentina, the USA) these movies are shown within the framework of the action «Pamyatats. Pomnit. Remember». The first viewers of the dilogy were journalists who were invited to a press screening at the Pobeda movie theater in the capital.