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00:02:30In Belarus, they know well who the Banderites are, who the forest
00:02:34brothers are, but mentions of the Home Army
00:02:37are quite rare. Unfortunately, this is primarily due
00:02:41to the ambiguous attitude towards this group, and such an attitude
00:02:44is caused by the concealment and suppression of its true
00:02:47actions during the Great Patriotic War on the territory
00:02:51of the BSSR. Indeed, not wishing to reopen old wounds,
00:02:55wishing to live in peace and friendship with our Western neighbors, we have largely
00:02:59accepted Poland's version that the Home Army was a Polish
00:03:02liberation partisan movement, that in 1944
00:03:06they rebelled against the fascists and organized the Warsaw Uprising
00:03:10for Poland's independence. But if we don't
00:03:13believe words, but look at documents, talk to the descendants
00:03:17of those who knew about the cruelty of the group firsthand,
00:03:20then many things fall into place,
00:03:23for example, that the Home Army were bandits, that they fought
00:03:27mostly against Soviet power and...
00:03:51On August 1, Poles widely celebrated the 82nd anniversary
00:03:54of the Warsaw Uprising, honoring members of the Home Army.
00:03:58In general, this is a holiday of... hypocrisy. What is the essence of the uprising itself?
00:04:01Its organizer was the Home
00:04:05Army, the military structure of the Polish government, which
00:04:08fled to London. 63 days of fierce street
00:04:12fighting ended with capitulation and the death
00:04:14of about 2,000 people, of whom only 16,000
00:04:18were military, the rest civilians, and almost complete
00:04:21destruction of the city. The decision to start the uprising in
00:04:25Warsaw was made by the Polish leadership in London and personally
00:04:28by the AK commander.
00:05:00The people were significantly worse armed than
00:05:03the German units. The Nazis, aware of the
00:05:06preparations, deployed SS units and
00:05:09collaborationist formations. Critics
00:05:12call this performance political madness,
00:05:16useless sacrifices, but while Poland honors its
00:05:20heroes, we in Belarus look at them quite
00:05:23differently. By mid- 1944,
00:05:26only on the territory of Western Belarus there were almost
00:05:2956,000 AK members. Four districts
00:05:33- Białystok, Vilnius, Navahrudak, Polesia,
00:05:36armed and ready to fight, but against
00:05:39whom? With the Germans, no.
00:05:44Soldiers of the Polish Home Army during the Great Patriotic War killed
00:05:48more Belarusians than Germans, meaning peaceful Belarusians. The Home Army has more
00:05:51Belarusian blood on its hands than even the Germans.
00:05:55The Home Army hardly fought with the Germans on the territory of Belarus; they mostly
00:05:59fought against the Belarusian
00:06:01population. They didn't fight, but
00:06:04annihilated, burned villages alive, shot
00:06:08families. Here is one of these terrible pages: in the village
00:06:11of Rakovichy, a brutal murder of an Orthodox priest and his
00:06:14wife took place. His wife was raped in front of her husband,
00:06:18her breasts cut off. Father Ioann had his fingers, which
00:06:22he used for blessing, chopped off. One of the reasons was his refusal
00:06:25to switch from Belarusian to Polish during
00:06:28sermons. In addition to the Alekhnovichy family, three Belarusian
00:06:32language teachers were killed. Here's what they
00:06:35still say about this case in the village
00:06:38to this day. It turned out that on that night
00:06:41another resident from a neighboring village
00:06:44of Syamyagi, not far from Rakavichy, was killed. We
00:06:47learned about this from his son, who came to us from
00:06:51Shchuchyn, he now lives in Shchuchyn, and he told us that on that
00:06:54night, bandits broke into his house,
00:06:58and his father tried to escape through the window, but it
00:07:01didn't work out, he was killed, and his mother was brutally
00:07:05beaten, she was pregnant with a child, they didn't finish
00:07:09her off, deciding that she wouldn't survive. Well, it
00:07:12turned out that by God's grace she survived, gave birth to this
00:07:16child, Viktor, and in memory of his father, he was named
00:07:20Viktor, also Viktor Viktorovich Trakhimchik. Well, he's far over
00:07:2480 now, he no longer comes to us, that was
00:07:26years ago, that was 23 years ago, he was here
00:07:29three years ago for the last time. This commemorative
00:07:32cross is installed on the site of the old
00:07:36church, the old church was initially wooden, it
00:07:39fell into disrepair over time, after the war it was finally...
00:08:12and his mother, Volya Halyakhnovich, and I
00:08:15as a teacher for the Belarusian language, these teachers of the Belarusian language,
00:08:19three of them, three were killed for this. Well, they forced
00:08:22Voska, Ioann Lyakhnovich to give sermons
00:08:26in Polish, but he refused,
00:08:29simply, well, inhumanly, brutally, they mocked him,
00:08:33and then killed him. I read that his
00:08:36mother could have been left alive,
00:08:40but they took him away, led him out.
00:09:12who have always been and now are serious enemies of the Poles. Let
00:09:16the Germans beat them, and we will, as it were, show sympathy to innocent
00:09:20victims. Belarusians will never understand this. This is a dark
00:09:23people, especially politically. Through their people, ask the German
00:09:27police to burn Belarusian villages under the pretext that they are helping partisans
00:09:30to try to help the Germans arrest a few Soviet partisans as
00:09:34proof of our cooperation with the Germans. Only
00:09:37a little, otherwise it could break our connection with
00:09:40the partisans. The Home Army had the task
00:09:44of returning Poland to its 1939 borders, so they
00:09:47launched their activities in Western Ukraine and
00:09:50Belarus. Here they recruited, created agent networks,
00:09:54unfolding an active struggle, primarily against
00:09:57communists, those who supported Soviet power, as well as
00:10:01Orthodox priests and teachers of the Belarusian language.
00:10:04Those who refused to join the side of the Polish bandits
00:10:08were killed, usually in such a way as to intimidate
00:10:11others. Not having achieved laurels in the fight against
00:10:15the partisans, the AK members achieved great
00:10:18success by conducting punitive operations against peaceful
00:10:21Belarusians, who for the most part were against genocide against
00:10:25Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Jews.
00:10:29Belarusians,
00:10:37Unfortunately, part of the AK unit was engaged in exactly this,
00:10:41and these crimes cannot be justified by anything. In
00:10:452022, the Russian FSB declassified
00:10:48documents confirming the facts of terrorist acts committed by the AK on
00:10:51the territory of Belarus in 1944.
00:10:55Excerpts from NKVD and Belarusian SSR reports
00:10:58mention almost seventy terrorist acts and other crimes. Victims
00:11:02included representatives of authorities, military personnel, heads
00:11:05of enterprises, teachers, entire rural councils
00:11:08were destroyed. And after the official disbandment
00:11:12of the Home Army in January 1945, many
00:11:15members of the organization did not lay down their arms. They
00:11:18went into the forests of Western Belarus and continued the terror
00:11:22jointly with the Germans. On March 12,
00:11:261945, the head of the fourth USSR Directorate
00:11:29Pavel Sudoplatov reported to the People's Commissar of State
00:11:32Security Merkulov information received from the commander
00:11:35of the Special Behind-the-Front Group of the NKGB, Senior
00:11:38Lieutenant Alexander Shikhov, who
00:11:41operated in the Vilnius
00:11:43region.
00:11:46Bandit Voitkevich Eduard was detained, who, being sure that he was dealing with the leader
00:11:49of the gang in the person of Comrade Shikhov, told him about his
00:11:53belonging to the gang of Ko. The sea named his nickname "Pantsesh" and
00:11:57said that Komarya's gang consists of sixty regular bandits
00:12:01and is armed with five machine guns and many automatic rifles.
00:12:04Pantsesh also reported that Komarya's gang includes a group
00:12:08of six German paratroopers led by a major,
00:12:12who has a radio, with the help of which communication is maintained with
00:12:15the German command.
00:12:18The Grodno prosecutor's office continues the investigation of these
00:12:21crimes. To date, about three thousand
00:12:25facts of murders of peaceful population in the region have been established,
00:12:28including 61 children. We often ask why
00:12:32today in Poland they heroize those who killed
00:12:35our compatriots, why criminals sentenced to
00:12:39death are elevated to the rank of national
00:12:42historical memory is a
00:12:45weapon, and Poland, unfortunately, uses this weapon against
00:12:49us. Immortalization of the memory
00:12:52to present it exclusively as...
00:13:25about our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who were killed not only by
00:13:28Nazis, but also by those whom today in Warsaw they call
00:13:32heroes. It is important, perhaps, to recall that after
00:13:35the Great Patriotic War, in the Polish People's Republic, the AK members for
00:13:39collaboration with the occupiers received the nickname "cursed
00:13:43soldiers." In present-day Poland, bandits and punitive forces from
00:13:47the Home Army are celebrated as heroes, but this,
00:14:49withstood the tests and entered the best period in history,
00:14:52a solemn event was held at the Chinese Embassy.
00:15:25of the Communist Party of China and the 99th anniversary of the founding of the
00:15:28People's Liberation Army. Behind the diplomatic protocol
00:15:32is a concrete economic agenda: strengthening strategic
00:15:36partnership.
00:16:07affirmation of common interest, this
00:16:10and next years are officially declared years of
00:16:13industrial cooperation between Belarus and China.
00:16:16Belarus and Tajikistan signed a roadmap for cooperation until
00:16:202031. The ceremony took place during
00:16:23the nineteenth meeting of the intergovernmental commission on
00:16:27trade and economic cooperation in Brest. The
00:16:30meeting discussed the state and prospects for the development
00:16:33of trade, economic, investment, and
00:16:36interregional industrial cooperation,
00:16:39interaction in various spheres of the economy and social
00:16:42sphere. The first through freight train
00:16:46"Slavic Caravan" departed from Orsha to Uzbekistan.
00:16:49A solemn event was held at Orsha Vostochnaya station.
00:16:53The train will follow the route Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan,
00:16:56Uzbekistan, consisting of wagons of woodworking products,
00:17:00food cargo, and also compound feed. In the future,
00:17:04it is planned to expand the range of cargo to include.
00:19:07The program for vacationers includes sports, creativity, excursions, and
00:19:11health improvement. This year we host children from
00:19:15ten countries, already delegations from Uzbekistan,
00:19:19Kyrgyzstan, from Algeria, Egypt, India
00:19:22and Zimbabwe have rested with us, now
00:19:26delegations from Vietnam, Myanmar, and
00:19:29Laos are undergoing health improvement.
00:19:33In August, we are expecting a large delegation from the People's Republic
00:19:36of China. The first impression of Belarus is
00:19:39exceptionally positive. I came here for the first time. I
00:19:42really like it here. I am surprised at how clean the air is and
00:19:46how green the forests are. Belarusian children are very friendly, I have
00:19:50already made friends with them. They are very active, kind, and easily
00:19:53make contact. There are also interesting sports games and
00:19:57competitions in the camp. Such events unite us. Inviting
00:20:01children from other countries is organized annually since
00:20:052017. Funds. tractors
00:20:37on the one hand, they are already accustomed to our Belarusians and BelAZ trucks, since
00:20:41Soviet times, on the other hand, boom, and there's already China, our
00:20:45all-weather and strategic, there's only one way out, to develop
00:20:48localization, but we... see how the head of state overcomes thousands
00:20:52of kilometers, intercultural differences, and you know, this strength
00:20:56of geopolitical position, one could have accepted it, well, no?