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00:01:00an unusual blue bus has been spotted on the streets of Minsk. It's a mobile
00:01:04home. Traveler and journalist Gerbert plans to visit
00:01:07193 countries with it. Belarus is second on the list, the first
00:01:11was the owner's historical homeland, Armenia.
00:01:15He has an address. Mira street building one. The product
00:01:18is called with Gerbert. I travel to different countries,
00:01:22talk about different cultures and talk about how the distinct
00:01:25differences are still more united than divided. I
00:01:28was born in Armenia. then lived in Kazakhstan for a couple of
00:01:32years, then lived in Russia for 10 years and lived in Germany for 12
00:01:36years, so you could say I'm a man of the world. The
00:01:40bus will continue its way, changing countries and borders, but the
00:01:43inscription on its side will remain unchanged: 193
00:01:47countries, 8 billion people, and all of them are
00:01:50us.
00:04:05In Belarus, people know well who the Banderites are, who the Forest
00:04:08Brothers are, but mentions of the Home Army
00:04:12are quite rare. Unfortunately, this is primarily due
00:04:16to the ambiguous attitude towards this group, and such an attitude
00:04:19is caused by the concealment and silencing of its true
00:04:22actions during the Great Patriotic War on the territory
00:04:26of the BSSR, because wishing not to stir up old wounds,
00:04:30wishing to live in peace and friendship with neighbors to the west, we for the most part
00:04:33adopted Poland's version that the Home Army is a Polish
00:04:37liberation partisan movement, that in 1944
00:04:41they rebelled against the fascists and organized the Warsaw Uprising
00:04:45for Poland's independence. But if you don't
00:04:48believe words, but look at documents, talk to the descendants
00:04:52of those who knew about the cruelty of the group firsthand,
00:04:55then a lot falls into place,
00:04:58for example, that the Home Army... these are bandits, that they largely
00:05:02fought against Soviet power and the Belarusian
00:05:05people, cooperating with the Germans, receiving from them both
00:05:08intelligence and weapons. But for
00:05:11some, this is... Of course, different. And with you, I am
00:05:14Ksenia Lebedeva.
00:05:16Hello.
00:05:25On August 1st, Poles widely celebrated the 82nd anniversary
00:05:29of the Warsaw Uprising, honoring members of the Home Army.
00:05:33In general, this is a holiday of Polish hypocrisy. What is the essence of the uprising
00:05:36itself? Its organizer was the Home
00:05:40Army, the military structure of the Polish government. the remaining
00:05:54civilians and almost complete destruction
00:05:57of the city. The decision to start the uprising in Warsaw was made
00:06:01by the Polish leadership in London and personally by the AK commander, General
00:06:05Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski. The political goal was
00:06:08twofold: on the one hand, to liberate Warsaw from German
00:06:11occupiers. On the other hand, to prevent the entry of the
00:06:15Red Army into the city and the establishment of Soviet control.
00:06:19The uprising was intended to demonstrate that Poland
00:06:22was capable of independently restoring its statehood, and the
00:06:25legitimate government remained the London
00:06:28cabinet. From a military point of view, the uprising was
00:06:31doomed. The insurgents, about 40-50 thousand
00:06:35people, were significantly worse armed than
00:06:38the German units. The Nazis, aware of the
00:06:41preparations, deployed SS units and
00:06:44collaborationist formations. Critics
00:06:47call this action political madness and
00:06:51needless sacrifices. But while Poland honors its
00:06:55heroes, we in Belarus look at them completely
00:06:58differently. By mid- 1944,
00:07:01on the territory of Western Belarus alone, there were almost
00:07:0456,000 AK members. Four districts
00:07:08- Bialystok, Vilna, Novogrudok, Polessye,
00:07:11armed and... ready to fight, but against
00:07:14whom, with the Germans?
00:07:17No,
00:07:19soldiers of the Polish Home Army during the Great Patriotic War killed
00:07:23more Belarusians than Germans, meaning peaceful Belarusians. The Home Army has
00:07:26much more Belarusian blood on its hands than even on German hands.
00:07:30The Home Army hardly fought with the Germans on the territory of Belarus; they mainly
00:07:34fought with the Belarusian population,
00:07:38they didn't fight, but destroyed, burned
00:07:41villages alive.
00:07:44Here is one such terrible page: in the village of Rakovich,
00:07:47an Orthodox priest and his wife were brutally murdered.
00:07:50The wife was raped in front of her husband, her
00:07:54breast was cut off. Father Ioann's fingers were cut off, the ones with which he
00:07:57crossed himself. One of the reasons was his unwillingness
00:08:00to switch from Belarusian to Polish during
00:08:03the sermon. Besides the family, Alekhnovich killed three
00:08:07Belarusian language teachers. Here's what they say
00:08:10about this incident in the village.
00:08:14It turned out that on that night another
00:08:17resident from the neighboring village of Syamyagi, not far from
00:08:21Rakovich, was killed. We learned about this from his son,
00:08:24he came to us from Shchuchyn, now he lives in
00:08:27Shchuchyn, and he told us that on that night, the bandits broke into
00:08:31their house, and his father tried
00:08:34to escape through the window, but he didn't succeed, he was killed and
00:08:38his mother was brutally and inhumanely beaten, she was expecting
00:08:42a child, they didn't finish her off, they decided that she
00:08:45wouldn't survive, but it turned out that by God's
00:08:49grace she survived, gave birth to this child, Viktor, and
00:08:52in memory of his father, he was also named Viktor,
00:08:55Viktor Viktorevich Trakhimchik, well, he is now well over 80, he
00:08:59no longer comes to us, this was years ago, this was
00:09:0223 years ago, and he was here for the last time long
00:09:06ago, this memorial cross was erected on the
00:09:09site of the old church, the old church.
00:09:42it was they, the Poles, who killed these priest and his wife Volha
00:09:46Haliakhnovich for their Orthodox faith, and
00:09:50the teachers for the Belarusian language, these Belarusian language teachers,
00:09:53all three of them, all three were killed for this. Well, they
00:09:57forced Father Yan
00:09:59Lyakhnovich to preach in Polish, but he
00:10:03refused, they simply tormented him inhumanely,
00:10:06brutally, and then killed him. I
00:10:10read that his wife... they could
00:10:13have left her alive, but they
00:10:16took him away, led him out of the village, and she didn't stay there waiting, but
00:10:20followed him, and they were both killed there. And
00:10:24now the most... cynical part, that makes this story not just
00:10:27a tragedy, but a well-thought-out crime. A quote from
00:10:31a document adopted at a meeting of the Home Army on May 5,
00:10:341943 in the village of Luhavichy,
00:10:37Ivatsevichy district.
00:10:41Since the Germans are hostile to communists, we must use this,
00:10:44calling all Belarusian national figures communists, who have always been
00:10:48and now are serious enemies of the Poles. Let the Germans beat them, and
00:10:52we will, as it were, show sympathy for innocent victims.
00:10:55Belarusians will never be able to understand this. These people are ignorant,
00:10:58especially politically. Through our people, ask the police and Germans
00:11:02to burn Belarusian villages under the pretext that they are helping partisans
00:11:05try to help the Germans detain several Soviet partisans as
00:11:09proof of our cooperation with the Germans, only
00:11:12a little, otherwise this may break our connection with
00:11:15the partisans.
00:11:17The Home Army was tasked with returning Poland to its 1939
00:11:20borders, therefore they expanded their activities in the territories of Western Belarus.
00:12:03The extermination of the population based on ethnic grounds is a clear
00:12:06characteristic of genocide, genocide against Belarusians,
00:12:10Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Jews. Unfortunately, a part of the AK
00:12:14units was engaged in exactly this, and these crimes cannot
00:12:17be justified by anything. In 2022,
00:12:21the FSB of Russia declassified documents confirming the facts
00:12:25of terrorist acts committed by the AK on the territory of Belarus in 1944.
00:12:29Excerpts and reports from the NKVD of the Belarusian
00:12:32SSR speak of almost seventy terrorist acts and other
00:12:35crimes. Victims included representatives
00:12:39of power, military personnel, leaders of enterprises, teachers,
00:12:42entire village councils were destroyed. And
00:12:45after the official disbandment of the Home Army in January
00:12:481945, many members of the organization did not
00:12:52lay down their arms. They went into the forests of Western
00:12:55Belarus and continued the terror together with the Germans.
00:12:58On March 12, 1945, the head
00:13:01of the fourth department of the USSR, Pavel
00:13:04Sudoplatov, reported to the People's Commissar of State Security, Merkulov,
00:13:08information received from the commander of a special group
00:13:11of the NKGB behind enemy lines, Senior Lieutenant Alexander
00:13:15Shikhov, who operated in the Vilna
00:13:17region.
00:13:20Bandit Vaitkevich Eduard was arrested, who, being sure that he was dealing with
00:13:24Shikhov as the leader of a gang, informed him of his
00:13:28belonging to Komar's gang, called himself "Pantsesh" and
00:13:32said that Komar's gang consists of sixty experienced
00:13:35bandits, has five machine guns and
00:13:38many automatic weapons. Pantsesh also reported that Komar's gang
00:13:42includes a group of German paratroopers, numbering six people, led
00:13:46by a major with a radio, through which
00:13:49communication with the German
00:13:51command is carried out. The Grodno Prosecutor's Office
00:13:55continues to investigate these crimes. To date,
00:13:58about 3,000 facts of murders of
00:14:01civilians in the region have been established, including
00:14:0461 children among them. We often ask why today in
00:14:08Poland those who killed our compatriots are glorified.
00:14:12Why are criminals sentenced to death elevated
00:14:15to the rank of national heroes? Because
00:14:18historical memory is a weapon and Poland, unfortunately, uses
00:14:22this weapon against us. To eternalize.
00:14:55Poles, but we demand one thing: respect for our
00:14:58memory, for the memory of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers,
00:15:02who were killed not only by the Nazis, but also by those
00:15:05whom today in Warsaw they call heroes.
00:15:08It is important, perhaps, to recall that after the Great Patriotic War, in the Polish
00:15:12People's Republic, AK members for cooperation with the occupiers
00:15:16received the nickname of cursed soldiers. In modern
00:15:20Poland, the bandit executioners from the Home Army are honored as
00:15:23heroes. But this, perhaps, is different,
00:15:27one must understand. And with you was Yasenia Lebedeva, until
00:15:31we meet in the next
00:15:32program.
00:16:02The European automotive industry is rushing into the abyss with a breeze, the crisis is called one of
00:16:06the deepest in the industry's history. The European automotive industry is one of
00:16:09the largest industrial sectors on the planet. Before the crisis, 13
00:16:13million were employed directly and in related industries. Annual production volume
00:16:16is about 12 million cars. Its share in world production
00:16:20was 25% back in 2015. In 2026, it will be already less than
00:16:2318%. The European automotive industry is in a powerful vice. On the one
00:16:27hand, Donald Trump is hitting exports with high import duties. On the
00:16:31other hand, a number of global errors in the economic policy
00:16:34of the European Union are affecting it. These persistent Chinese
00:16:37are not letting them live; their automotive industry is simply
00:16:41destroying legendary German brands. A Chinese
00:16:44electric car costs on average 30-40% cheaper
00:16:48than its European counterpart with comparable quality. In
00:16:512025, Chinese brands already occupied
00:16:54a tenth of the European market. The price of industrial
00:16:58electricity in Germany in 2026 is about
00:17:0120 euro cents per kilowatt-hour. In China, it's 5-7
00:17:05euro cents, in the USA - 7-9 euro cents. In order
00:17:08for the automotive industry not to collapse under the weight of economic realities, European authorities are trying to find
00:17:12them something to do, that is, to reorient them, just as before the Second
00:17:15World War, suggesting they turn butter into guns.
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00:20:11used to stand here, there was an open bowl here, the fountain basically didn't
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