One of the highlights was the presentation of the book “They have no statute of limitations…” from the “State of the Union Library” series on the war crimes of the fascists and a panel discussion dedicated to its discussion at the Defense Museum of the Brest Fortress.
We respond with unity
More than 30 official delegations arrived in Brest to honor the memory of the defenders who were the first to repel the fascist invaders.
Among them were the delegations of the State Duma and the Federation Council, the Permanent Committee of the State of the Union, the investigative commissions of Belarus and Russia headed by the heads of departments… heroes”, lit the lamps. A minute’s silence honored the memory of the fallen soldiers. Addressing the audience, State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus, Alexander Volfovich, noted that today , more than ever, it is important to value peace on our land and to do everything possible to preserve it.
State Secretary of the Union State Dmitry Mezentsev stressed the importance of the unity of brotherly peoples, without which there would be no victory in the Great Patriotic War. Dmitry Mezentsev drew attention to the fact that it is difficult for the generation of the victors to imagine that the time will come when the descendants of the initiators of the plan to destroy the peoples of the Soviet Union will say how we should continue to live and what we should do.
– Today we are witnessing unprecedented pressure on Belarus and Russia. Economic, financial, political, informational, military. Their response to this is unity. The unity of the peoples of Belarus and Russia, the common position of our national leaders – President Vladimir Putin and President Alexander Lukashenko – stressed the State Secretary of the Union State.
After the meeting-requiem, according to an established tradition, the border guards lit the torch of the Eternal Flame and delivered it on an armored personnel carrier to the shores of the Western Bug. Wreaths with lighted candles were lowered into the water as a symbol of eternal memory of the heroic act of the defenders of the citadel…
At 6 o’clock in the morning, members of the delegations became spectators (more than 12,000 of them gathered for the night event) of the military-historical reconstruction of the events of the first day of the war at the Kobrin fortification of the Fortress of Brest.
truth and memory
“They have no statute of limitations…” is the title of the second book in the “Library of the Union State” series (the first was presented in the fortress last year) on the crimes of fascism against the peoples of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War. It was presented on June 22 at the Defense Museum of the Fortress of Brest, which is located in one of the barracks of the fortress.
The book is based on historical facts from the investigations of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus, as well as the decisions of the courts of the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region on the recognition of the blockade of Leningrad as genocide. The book was prepared for publication with the personal participation of Dmitry Mezentsev.
The circulation of the new allied edition is low – 1200 copies. However, later the book will be digitized and will be available to everyone.
Opening the discussion, the Union State Secretary of State noted that the publication is dedicated to the protection of historical memory:
- The book reflects glaring facts, chilling the soul and blood, in connection with the atrocities that the Nazis committed on the land of Belarus and in the Leningrad region, in connection with the besieged city, when the southern ring of the blockade was held by the Nazi invaders and the northern ring – the Finnish troops.
In Belarus, the crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices are being investigated in a criminal case for genocide. Attorney General Andrei Shved spoke of a large-scale national project that is fully realized across the country:
– Because Belarus is a big mass grave. It is very important for us to convey the truth about this terrible war, about what Nazism and fascism are, to young people. This truth is necessary to fight against those who rewrite history.
By tradition, on the night of June 21 to 22, a meeting-requiem is held each year in the Brest fortress. Photo: BELTA
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p class=””>The same work is underway in Russia. Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of the commission of inquiry, spoke about it:
- We have done a lot both in terms of research work and archiving. – For example, in 2022, mass graves were discovered in the Moscow region, where more than 100 patients of a psychiatric hospital were destroyed by the Germans. A large grave was recently discovered near Pskov, where more than 2.5 thousand civilians were killed. Court decisions recognized these crimes as war crimes and genocide of the Soviet people.
Belarusian Minister of Information Vladimir Pertsov drew the attention of the participants of the round table to the fact that the atmosphere, which, alas, is currently being felt in the Brest Fortress, is consistent with that which prevailed in 1941 to this turning point of the Soviet Union:
– On the other side of the border, just behind the Brest Fortress, representatives of the Polish border department in similar uniforms walk around. Far from being defensive, the weapons accumulate on the other side. On the other side, we actually hear the same exclamations that our ancestors heard in 1941. History really repeats itself in a spiral, and it’s good that our leaders and our people in the majority do not have the delirium that they had 82 years ago. There is a clear understanding of the errors of the history of the last century, they make it possible to adequately examine and evaluate the statements of the states that supported Hitler in the Great Patriotic War.
The refrain of the event at the Brest Fortress was that the new book is a conductor of historical truth and memory, the main answer to the lies that falsifiers are spreading today through modern communication channels.
The circulation of the new allied edition is low – 1200 copies. However, later the book will be digitized and made available to everyone.
– The information space has no borders. I thought that we should send these books to the ambassadors of the EU countries, who are accredited in Moscow and Minsk, and to all those who try today, wearing the bureaucratic suspenders of Western democracies, to doubt the victory of the Soviet people over fascism, – summarized Dmitry Mezentsev .
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