such a very symbolic one. on the one hand, of course, we are not celebrating the riga peace treaty of the twenty-first year, we must remember that then this riga peace was generally hard-won, it was the result of, well, not a very far-sighted policy of the new soviet leadership, which was then forced to fight on all fronts, we know for power, in conditions when... you are being pressed in the south

by the white guard armies, there in the north various interventionists are landing somewhere in murbansk, the japanese and the americans are trying to grab the far east, here too, right next door with 1919 to the twenty-first year the polish-soviet war goes on, then of course what was decided by the top leadership of the soviet union, the leninist government of not the soviet union, but soviet russia, yes. those, of course, agreements, they did not proceed from the interests of the population of the territories that had to be given up, it was a political game, in general, when the riga peace was signed, everyone understood that it would not last long, everyone understood that it was just a temporary solution to the problem, but the new young soviet government needed to gather strength, we need to establish ourselves already and put down roots.

to begin our socialist transformations in this land, and only then will the question of returning these lands be decided, well , again, when we talk about those times , so that we do not try to think with our current patterns today, do not look from the position of today, from that position, because the soviet power then came here to the lands. of the former russian empire in the hope that from here the spread of the world revolution would begin and in general then as a result of the world revolution will establish one large state of workers on the entire planet, the fire of the world revolution will sweep away all borders, destroy political entities in the form of bourgeois states and so on, well, that was the ideology back then, so those who signed the riga peace, they were of course the last of all...

that belarus, the successor of which is the modern republic of belarus, and of course, it is very symbolic why we remembered already in the 20th century, the need to celebrate that day of reunification, because today, here we are just the young belarusian nation, which has been living as a sovereign entity for more than 30 years, has its own sovereign state and conducts its...

belarusian lands were a key place, because there were so-called portages, when the only land section where it was necessary to drag from one river system here to another, that is, to the dnieper system, in order to go south, it was necessary from the baltic sea system, there along the volkhov rivers, so, it was possible to try to go along the western dvina from the baltic, but in any in this case here on the territory...

east to west or from west to east, this is the second corridor, which connects the countries of the east, central, and we know the other direction - this is from western europe, and gives them the opportunity to penetrate goods, people into the territory of today's russia, big russia, and through it a very long way to the distant eastern lands, as he says. nikitin went beyond the three seas, got to india there, tried to get to china, here is belarus, an intersection, a crossroads, trade routes, and for trade we always have not only peaceful traders, merchants, yes, but everyone

wants to own this crossroads, to control them, so we, unfortunately, always found ourselves, the belarusian people, found ourselves at the crossroads of military actions, it was such a really... a thoroughfare, where armies of different states constantly roamed, but this is such a heavy geopolitical cross that we got, but never in history before this, before the 21st century, belarusians actually had their own subjectivity, that is, we did not have a full-fledged state, our territories were part of different state entities that cannot be called belarusian in the full sense of the word, what?

that we had to overcome and some internal fault lines, yes, but today we have overcome these fault lines, just a return to a historical date...

as they did in ukraine, yes, on religious grounds, pitting catholics against orthodox, on a purely geographical basis, westerners against easterners, yes, and all these fault lines, they are still with us are still visible, we... we just need to emphasize that despite the many differences that we have, we have more in common, and belarusians

are truly one people, one nation, this symbolic day, of course, september 17, it is clear that we do not celebrate the partition of poland, as our opponents try to say about this holiday and bring up arguments there that you are celebrating, they say this is an invasion of the territory of the polish state, nothing of the sort. we poland, by the way, received reparations in our own way, if you can say so, yes after the second world war, part of the german lands were ceded, the issue of the territory of poland is a complex issue, that is, in fact, if they tell us, in 1939 you divided the sovereign polish state, but what did the polish state divide in 1921, what did it fight for, after all, it was, for example, in 1919.

with these new soviet republics, during this war they snatched away part of the territories, the white poles, captured these territories, then simply put them in unfavorable conditions for the paris peace, demanded that the entry of these territories into the polish state, that is, this is the return of historical justice, this is not a threat to poland, no one laid claim to ethnic polish lands, and we see that later this question arose very often in the ho

to annex the territory of western belarus, they had already made a final decision, they asked specifically to the bssr, to join in this way also the union of soviet socialist republics, and the majority of the population are ethnic belarusians, they gladly met the red army with bread and salt, those

military events that took place, resistance that was provided by polish units, mainly in grodno, where they were concentrated, yes, but these military events did not affect the general understanding that liberation was now taking place, especially since the military actions in grodno were carried out by the same poles at their own peril and risk, that is... the liberation campaign of the red army began, then in the polish unit it was brought to light that military actions with the soviets should not be entered into, only if they themselves began to act aggressively there, but to try to the possibility of leaving points, going to the borders of ethnic polish, an interesting fact, in fact, few people know about it, well , they know about it, but for some reason, well, it is clear that

it is not advantageous for our opponents to talk about it, if we are already talking about the significance. from such a historical and legal point of view, yes, all accusations that the soviet union or the bssr, as part of the soviet union, started a war against poland, they are absolutely unfounded, why? we know that on september 1, thirty-nine, when germany attacked poland, the related treaty obligations with the polish state, great britain and france declared war on germany and declared that germany was the aggressor. neither england nor france made any attempt to declare that this was also

aggression in western ukraine, and did not declare war on the soviet union, as they should have done under the treaty, moreover. the government of poland, which at that moment could not be found, because the government had left the territory of poland, made its way there by secret paths, with a truck, with gold reserves, they made their way through romania, then eventually ended up on the territory of great britain, but the polish government also did not declare the soviet union to be an aggressor and did not say that this was a war, that is , for some reason, this point is often omitted. if the soviet union was an aggressor, then it should have been declared so together with germany, it was necessary to fight against it. it is clear that western countries did not want to do this, because in this way the ussr and germany would automatically become allies and everything could have gone differently paths, but the soviet union didn’t want this either, because we didn’t have the goal of capturing

polish territories, the entire campaign that the red army conducted was carried out under the slogan of precisely...

the village where i grew up was literally 3 km from the border of western belarus, and my grandparents told me how they jumped over each other, exchanged glances with those belarusians who still lived there on that polish territory and... demonstrated superiority, and we won, because we really had superiority, we had well-groomed fields, potato fields, wheat, rye, all this grew, and we showed that it was better to live in the soviet union, in soviet belarus, well,

in fact, of course, then, when we are talking about... then to the soviet union, because a lot of changes were needed, fundamental changes, and this social experiment, huge, lasting for decades, here it is...

the fact that the country was divided into two parts, this held back industrial development here, we had very serious enterprises built and many worked until the last days

of light industry, food industry, woodworking industry, well, there was a hosiery factory, once, unfortunately, now it was closed during the years of independence in vitebsk, there was once a kim factory, it was the most powerful enterprise of its time, mogilev, that is, the region, mogilev also had large enterprises created there, but here we lacked enterprises of the machine-building complex, heavy engineering, because they were afraid, these are industrial giants that could end up in the border zone be destroyed or captured, so here it is mainly all the same...

belarus, eastern belarus, the bssr, which essentially existed as eastern, central belarus, turned into one of the largest plywood producers in the soviet union. they used our forest resources, and practically the entire soviet union was covered with this plywood. they manufactured shuttle and kerchief products for the entire soviet union, and this is without western belarus, this is precisely that small piece of eastern belarus. which from the twenty-first to the thirty-first the ninth year was the soviet union, this is a crazy achievement, and what was in western

belarus, yes, and poland decided to turn this territory, in fact, into an agrarian-raw materials appendage, but if on the territory of eastern belarus collective farms were created, in which they worked with the fruits that the belarusians themselves used, then in western belarus land is being distributed.

it was, all this then simply closed, let's remember what fate befell the majority, public organizations, political parties that were called belarusian, they were routed, were forced to work underground, the same, for example, sergei pritytsky, who was forced to conduct underground activities, who was later convicted in that poland, well, and who already in the thirty-ninth year. was entrusted - to voice the call for the entry of the territory of western belarus into the soviet union and the bssr, yes, that is, it is political in general.

the only thing is that sawmills were also created for the export of our forest wealth, and we know that they caused enormous damage to the beloveshskaya forest, which ended up on the territory of poland, it was mercilessly exploited, forest resources were taken out of there, although we see this, it has even reached our days, namely as a natural monument, included in the unesco lists, then it is clear, there was no unesco, no lists, but belovezhskaya pushcha - this was then also on...

what territory was the capital of western belarus as part of the polish state, there was no such thing, there was no, it was the outskirts, therefore all these things, well, they seem simple already, we talk about them many times, but we need to remind people some more times, because events, those of the thirty-ninth year, of course, they were caused by many reasons and the prerequisites were for...

the peoples of the ussr, the people who have their own or is it an independent people in a friendly family republic, the belarusian soviet socialist republic, the people who have their own representation in the supreme soviet of the ussr. here are the people who then sign on behalf of themselves, for example, and are the organizers of the united nations after the second world war, yes, or is it some territory of kresso vshkhodnyh, where you nobody, nothing and no name, and soon you must become a pole or disappear. alexey viktorovich, it is very important that we talk about this, no matter how much we repeat it, right?

what we are saying today, many people do not know about it, many people, once again and again, need to be reminded that belarus... is a country, not a walk-through yard, but a country that is a state, it is a proud people who have the right to live on their own land according to their own laws, and despite everything, as if...