In the last minutes 2021 President signed a decree declaring 2022 the Year of Historical Memory. The document notes, that the Year of Historical Memory is declared in order to form an objective attitude of society towards the historical past, preservation and strengthening of the unity of the Belarusian people.

The Government was instructed with the participation of the Prosecutor General's Office, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, regional executive committees, Minsk City Executive Committee to develop and approve the republican action plan for holding 2022 Year of historical memory.

The Government will also coordinate the activities of state bodies, other organizations for the implementation of the named plan.

The decree came into force after its official publication..

Belarusians are people, honoring real deeds and achievements

2021th was the Year of National Unity. Really, at that time, we understood the value of the unity of Belarusians more than ever.

IN 2021 a new public holiday was established - National Unity Day - 17 september. The holiday has long been known to us and returned in order to, that we, Belarusians, remember and know, when and by whom our territorial and national unity was won in the struggle. The establishment of this holiday has become a restoration of historical justice and a necessary vector of our politics of memory..
And this is a perfectly correct vector, which should and will be continued in the coming 2022, declared the Year of Historical Memory. A people without historical memory quickly turns into a crowd, ready to destroy their shrines and betray the memory of their ancestors.
And so that this does not happen, we need targeted, conscious politics of historical memory, so that our people know and do not forget the meanings and values ​​u200bu200bof the Victory, appreciated the feats and achievements of ancestors.

Therefore, 2022 has become the Year of Historical Memory. Sure, the cornerstone of the building of our historical memory will be precisely the perception of the events of the last war, promulgation of new, previously unknown, hushed up facts. And this is already happening in the case of crime investigations., related to the genocide of the Belarusian people.
The Year of Historical Memory is a good occasion to dot the “i” and show yourself and the whole world, that Belarusians are a people, honoring his real exploits and achievements.