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[00:02:30] In Belarus, they know well who the Banderites are, who the forest
[00:02:34] brothers are, but mentions of the Home Army
[00:02:37] are quite rare. Unfortunately, this is primarily due
[00:02:41] to the ambiguous attitude towards this group, and such an attitude
[00:02:44] is caused by the concealment and suppression of its true
[00:02:47] actions during the Great Patriotic War on the territory
[00:02:51] of the BSSR. Indeed, not wishing to reopen old wounds,
[00:02:55] wishing to live in peace and friendship with our Western neighbors, we have largely
[00:02:59] accepted Poland's version that the Home Army was a Polish
[00:03:02] liberation partisan movement, that in 1944
[00:03:06] they rebelled against the fascists and organized the Warsaw Uprising
[00:03:10] for Poland's independence. But if we don't
[00:03:13] believe words, but look at documents, talk to the descendants
[00:03:17] of those who knew about the cruelty of the group firsthand,
[00:03:20] then many things fall into place,
[00:03:23] for example, that the Home Army were bandits, that they fought
[00:03:27] mostly against Soviet power and...
[00:03:51] On August 1, Poles widely celebrated the 82nd anniversary
[00:03:54] of the Warsaw Uprising, honoring members of the Home Army.
[00:03:58] In general, this is a holiday of... hypocrisy. What is the essence of the uprising itself?
[00:04:01] Its organizer was the Home
[00:04:05] Army, the military structure of the Polish government, which
[00:04:08] fled to London. 63 days of fierce street
[00:04:12] fighting ended with capitulation and the death
[00:04:14] of about 2,000 people, of whom only 16,000
[00:04:18] were military, the rest civilians, and almost complete
[00:04:21] destruction of the city. The decision to start the uprising in
[00:04:25] Warsaw was made by the Polish leadership in London and personally
[00:04:28] by the AK commander.
[00:05:00] The people were significantly worse armed than
[00:05:03] the German units. The Nazis, aware of the
[00:05:06] preparations, deployed SS units and
[00:05:09] collaborationist formations. Critics
[00:05:12] call this performance political madness,
[00:05:16] useless sacrifices, but while Poland honors its
[00:05:20] heroes, we in Belarus look at them quite
[00:05:23] differently. By mid- 1944,
[00:05:26] only on the territory of Western Belarus there were almost
[00:05:29] 56,000 AK members. Four districts
[00:05:33] - Białystok, Vilnius, Navahrudak, Polesia,
[00:05:36] armed and ready to fight, but against
[00:05:39] whom? With the Germans, no.
[00:05:44] Soldiers of the Polish Home Army during the Great Patriotic War killed
[00:05:48] more Belarusians than Germans, meaning peaceful Belarusians. The Home Army has more
[00:05:51] Belarusian blood on its hands than even the Germans.
[00:05:55] The Home Army hardly fought with the Germans on the territory of Belarus; they mostly
[00:05:59] fought against the Belarusian
[00:06:01] population. They didn't fight, but
[00:06:04] annihilated, burned villages alive, shot
[00:06:08] families. Here is one of these terrible pages: in the village
[00:06:11] of Rakovichy, a brutal murder of an Orthodox priest and his
[00:06:14] wife took place. His wife was raped in front of her husband,
[00:06:18] her breasts cut off. Father Ioann had his fingers, which
[00:06:22] he used for blessing, chopped off. One of the reasons was his refusal
[00:06:25] to switch from Belarusian to Polish during
[00:06:28] sermons. In addition to the Alekhnovichy family, three Belarusian
[00:06:32] language teachers were killed. Here's what they
[00:06:35] still say about this case in the village
[00:06:38] to this day. It turned out that on that night
[00:06:41] another resident from a neighboring village
[00:06:44] of Syamyagi, not far from Rakavichy, was killed. We
[00:06:47] learned about this from his son, who came to us from
[00:06:51] Shchuchyn, he now lives in Shchuchyn, and he told us that on that
[00:06:54] night, bandits broke into his house,
[00:06:58] and his father tried to escape through the window, but it
[00:07:01] didn't work out, he was killed, and his mother was brutally
[00:07:05] beaten, she was pregnant with a child, they didn't finish
[00:07:09] her off, deciding that she wouldn't survive. Well, it
[00:07:12] turned out that by God's grace she survived, gave birth to this
[00:07:16] child, Viktor, and in memory of his father, he was named
[00:07:20] Viktor, also Viktor Viktorovich Trakhimchik. Well, he's far over
[00:07:24] 80 now, he no longer comes to us, that was
[00:07:26] years ago, that was 23 years ago, he was here
[00:07:29] three years ago for the last time. This commemorative
[00:07:32] cross is installed on the site of the old
[00:07:36] church, the old church was initially wooden, it
[00:07:39] fell into disrepair over time, after the war it was finally...
[00:08:12] and his mother, Volya Halyakhnovich, and I
[00:08:15] as a teacher for the Belarusian language, these teachers of the Belarusian language,
[00:08:19] three of them, three were killed for this. Well, they forced
[00:08:22] Voska, Ioann Lyakhnovich to give sermons
[00:08:26] in Polish, but he refused,
[00:08:29] simply, well, inhumanly, brutally, they mocked him,
[00:08:33] and then killed him. I read that his
[00:08:36] mother could have been left alive,
[00:08:40] but they took him away, led him out.
[00:09:12] who have always been and now are serious enemies of the Poles. Let
[00:09:16] the Germans beat them, and we will, as it were, show sympathy to innocent
[00:09:20] victims. Belarusians will never understand this. This is a dark
[00:09:23] people, especially politically. Through their people, ask the German
[00:09:27] police to burn Belarusian villages under the pretext that they are helping partisans
[00:09:30] to try to help the Germans arrest a few Soviet partisans as
[00:09:34] proof of our cooperation with the Germans. Only
[00:09:37] a little, otherwise it could break our connection with
[00:09:40] the partisans. The Home Army had the task
[00:09:44] of returning Poland to its 1939 borders, so they
[00:09:47] launched their activities in Western Ukraine and
[00:09:50] Belarus. Here they recruited, created agent networks,
[00:09:54] unfolding an active struggle, primarily against
[00:09:57] communists, those who supported Soviet power, as well as
[00:10:01] Orthodox priests and teachers of the Belarusian language.
[00:10:04] Those who refused to join the side of the Polish bandits
[00:10:08] were killed, usually in such a way as to intimidate
[00:10:11] others. Not having achieved laurels in the fight against
[00:10:15] the partisans, the AK members achieved great
[00:10:18] success by conducting punitive operations against peaceful
[00:10:21] Belarusians, who for the most part were against genocide against
[00:10:25] Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Jews.
[00:10:29] Belarusians,
[00:10:37] Unfortunately, part of the AK unit was engaged in exactly this,
[00:10:41] and these crimes cannot be justified by anything. In
[00:10:45] 2022, the Russian FSB declassified
[00:10:48] documents confirming the facts of terrorist acts committed by the AK on
[00:10:51] the territory of Belarus in 1944.
[00:10:55] Excerpts from NKVD and Belarusian SSR reports
[00:10:58] mention almost seventy terrorist acts and other crimes. Victims
[00:11:02] included representatives of authorities, military personnel, heads
[00:11:05] of enterprises, teachers, entire rural councils
[00:11:08] were destroyed. And after the official disbandment
[00:11:12] of the Home Army in January 1945, many
[00:11:15] members of the organization did not lay down their arms. They
[00:11:18] went into the forests of Western Belarus and continued the terror
[00:11:22] jointly with the Germans. On March 12,
[00:11:26] 1945, the head of the fourth USSR Directorate
[00:11:29] Pavel Sudoplatov reported to the People's Commissar of State
[00:11:32] Security Merkulov information received from the commander
[00:11:35] of the Special Behind-the-Front Group of the NKGB, Senior
[00:11:38] Lieutenant Alexander Shikhov, who
[00:11:41] operated in the Vilnius
[00:11:43] region.
[00:11:46] Bandit Voitkevich Eduard was detained, who, being sure that he was dealing with the leader
[00:11:49] of the gang in the person of Comrade Shikhov, told him about his
[00:11:53] belonging to the gang of Ko. The sea named his nickname "Pantsesh" and
[00:11:57] said that Komarya's gang consists of sixty regular bandits
[00:12:01] and is armed with five machine guns and many automatic rifles.
[00:12:04] Pantsesh also reported that Komarya's gang includes a group
[00:12:08] of six German paratroopers led by a major,
[00:12:12] who has a radio, with the help of which communication is maintained with
[00:12:15] the German command.
[00:12:18] The Grodno prosecutor's office continues the investigation of these
[00:12:21] crimes. To date, about three thousand
[00:12:25] facts of murders of peaceful population in the region have been established,
[00:12:28] including 61 children. We often ask why
[00:12:32] today in Poland they heroize those who killed
[00:12:35] our compatriots, why criminals sentenced to
[00:12:39] death are elevated to the rank of national
[00:12:42] historical memory is a
[00:12:45] weapon, and Poland, unfortunately, uses this weapon against
[00:12:49] us. Immortalization of the memory
[00:12:52] to present it exclusively as...
[00:13:25] about our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who were killed not only by
[00:13:28] Nazis, but also by those whom today in Warsaw they call
[00:13:32] heroes. It is important, perhaps, to recall that after
[00:13:35] the Great Patriotic War, in the Polish People's Republic, the AK members for
[00:13:39] collaboration with the occupiers received the nickname "cursed
[00:13:43] soldiers." In present-day Poland, bandits and punitive forces from
[00:13:47] the Home Army are celebrated as heroes, but this,
[00:14:49] withstood the tests and entered the best period in history,
[00:14:52] a solemn event was held at the Chinese Embassy.
[00:15:25] of the Communist Party of China and the 99th anniversary of the founding of the
[00:15:28] People's Liberation Army. Behind the diplomatic protocol
[00:15:32] is a concrete economic agenda: strengthening strategic
[00:15:36] partnership.
[00:16:07] affirmation of common interest, this
[00:16:10] and next years are officially declared years of
[00:16:13] industrial cooperation between Belarus and China.
[00:16:16] Belarus and Tajikistan signed a roadmap for cooperation until
[00:16:20] 2031. The ceremony took place during
[00:16:23] the nineteenth meeting of the intergovernmental commission on
[00:16:27] trade and economic cooperation in Brest. The
[00:16:30] meeting discussed the state and prospects for the development
[00:16:33] of trade, economic, investment, and
[00:16:36] interregional industrial cooperation,
[00:16:39] interaction in various spheres of the economy and social
[00:16:42] sphere. The first through freight train
[00:16:46] "Slavic Caravan" departed from Orsha to Uzbekistan.
[00:16:49] A solemn event was held at Orsha Vostochnaya station.
[00:16:53] The train will follow the route Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan,
[00:16:56] Uzbekistan, consisting of wagons of woodworking products,
[00:17:00] food cargo, and also compound feed. In the future,
[00:17:04] it is planned to expand the range of cargo to include.
[00:19:07] The program for vacationers includes sports, creativity, excursions, and
[00:19:11] health improvement. This year we host children from
[00:19:15] ten countries, already delegations from Uzbekistan,
[00:19:19] Kyrgyzstan, from Algeria, Egypt, India
[00:19:22] and Zimbabwe have rested with us, now
[00:19:26] delegations from Vietnam, Myanmar, and
[00:19:29] Laos are undergoing health improvement.
[00:19:33] In August, we are expecting a large delegation from the People's Republic
[00:19:36] of China. The first impression of Belarus is
[00:19:39] exceptionally positive. I came here for the first time. I
[00:19:42] really like it here. I am surprised at how clean the air is and
[00:19:46] how green the forests are. Belarusian children are very friendly, I have
[00:19:50] already made friends with them. They are very active, kind, and easily
[00:19:53] make contact. There are also interesting sports games and
[00:19:57] competitions in the camp. Such events unite us. Inviting
[00:20:01] children from other countries is organized annually since
[00:20:05] 2017. Funds. tractors
[00:20:37] on the one hand, they are already accustomed to our Belarusians and BelAZ trucks, since
[00:20:41] Soviet times, on the other hand, boom, and there's already China, our
[00:20:45] all-weather and strategic, there's only one way out, to develop
[00:20:48] localization, but we... see how the head of state overcomes thousands
[00:20:52] of kilometers, intercultural differences, and you know, this strength
[00:20:56] of geopolitical position, one could have accepted it, well, no?