The most significant military parade, sporting demonstration and civil machinery show took place in the Belarusian capital on the occasion of the Independence Day and the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis

The most significant military parade, sporting demonstration and civil machinery show took place in the Belarusian capital on the occasion of the Independence Day and the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis. The parade was taken by Aliaxandar Lukashenka wearing a Marshall uniform, which came out with a range of militaristic statements. Aliaxandar Lukashenka could not dispense with charges against the western countries, making the subject political while speaking about the fascists’ violence, veterans’ and liberators’ exploit at the ceremonial meeting in the Republic Palace: “Not everybody knows and remembers that at the times of the Nazis’, er, nationalists’ preponderance the main Belarusian state holiday was celebrated on another day associated with the Soviet Union destruction. Thus, ideological descendants of fascism upholders equated the Germany of Nazi and Soviet Union. They wanted Belarusians to accept this lie, this appalling injustice.” Soviet Union times nostalgia was one of the principal issues of Lukashenka’s speech. It inspired him to criticize the western countries that, according to A. Lukashenka, surrendered to the fascists, unlike USSR. Lukashenka recalled that 10 European states attacked USSR together with Germany, that “Baltic SS-officers burnt down Belarusian towns and villages,” that now they are holding parades, and their children and grandchildren want to dictate the way Belarus should live.”