"Turn into silent slaves." Lukashenko on the policy of ethnocide in Western Belarus in the period 1921-1939

For 18 years, an extremely cruel policy of ethnocide was carried out in Western Belarus, the purpose of which was to suppress the will of people and turn them into submissive and silent creatures. This was announced by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at the Youth Forum. Belarus. The future, which is dedicated to the Day of National Unity. This is reported by BelTA.

Alexander Lukashenko noted that in the period from 1921 to 1939, a policy of cruel ethnocide was carried out on the lands of Western Belarus.

“Sufficient time to make people forget language, tradition, history. The main task was to break people spiritually, to erase as a person, to turn them into silent slaves who could not think about unity and equality. During this time, a new generation grew up in the so-called Polish Peoples’ Prison. But no one has forgotten, no one has denied and no one has torn away from the roots, he said.

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