karina pashkova, anzor tuzhaev, tv news agency. gala reception at the honor of the independence day of belarus on the eightieth anniversary of liberation took place in moscow. for belarusians, historical memory is sacred; preserving the truth about the great patriotic war is enshrined in the country’s constitution. belarus paid a terrible price for the victory over fascism; every third person died. about 10 thousand villages and hamlets were completely destroyed, including their inhabitants. more than 400 repeated the tragic fate of khatyn. they talk about it, and the fact that we stand together today, shoulder to shoulder and solve common problems, speaks of the closeness of our peoples. i this is the thirty-third year since the very first of our beloved slavic bazaar, every time i go out on this stage i say, what happiness, fate and god sent, that then in ninety-first, when everyone ran away from each other in different directions. we ran to belarus, vitebsk, to meet each other, and now we understand that together is better, than