The book is the result of joint efforts of the Belarusian Justice Ministry and BelTA to investigate and bring to light little-known facts of the genocide in the territory of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) occupied by the Nazi during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
Two years ago a coup d'état was prevented in Belarus, Chairman of the Standing Commission on Education, Culture and Science of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Igor Marzalyuk told journalists at the dialogue platform “Historical memory - the basis of national and civic self-identity” in Gomel.
MP: A state flag is a collective symbol of the nation
Igor Marzalyuk
MINSK, 25 May (BelTA) – The state flag of a country is a collective symbol of the nation, BelTA learned from Chairman of the Education, Culture, and Science Commission of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Igor Marzalyuk at a session of the lower chamber of the Belarusian parliament on 25 May.
The MP said: “The state flag of a country is a collective symbol of the nation. In our case it is the symbol of an all-Belarusian consensus, which was adopted at a referendum in 1995. For particularly advanced people I would like to remind about results of the referendum and about results of an opinion poll held in 2018. In 2018 13.2% of those polled spoke in favor of the white-red-white flag while 69.4% spoke in favor of the national state Belarusian flag. I am not even going to refer to social studies of 2020 and 2021, which testify that two thirds of the citizens support the symbols that