Are there differences in the perception of National Unity Day among different generations?

Director of the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Nikolai Myslivets answered the question whether there are differences in the perception of the Day of National Unity among people of different generations.

The expert noted that both young people and older people have their own sources of memory, which differ. At the same time, the present is projected into the future, which, according to him, is determined by the generations now entering life - people about 30-40 years old. He called working with this category one of the most important priorities.

Meanwhile, Myslivets stressed that there are no serious differences in the perception of the National Unity Day holiday among different social and age groups in Belarus. “As regards the perception of this holiday, the inhabitants of the western and eastern regions have no fundamental differences. The only point is that in those territories that were directly located in the western part of our country, the memory that we call living is preserved more reliably, because it is transmitted from generation to generation, it is the basis for these events (the liberation and reunification of Western Belarus) to be valued not only through the prism of the history of past events, but also through the prism of personal autobiographical memory. Therefore, for this territory, this memory is deeper, more durable. This is a human characteristic: we value most of all what we have gone through, what we have experienced, what our relatives and friends have witnessed. This emotional, living component is more firmly reflected in the consciousness and living generations, Myslivets said.