European diplomats in Minsk pay tribute to victims of World War II
May 8, Pozirk. European diplomats paid tribute to those fallen during the Second World War at Soviet soldiers’ mass grave in Minsk, the German embassy said on Facebook.
East Germany marked May 8 as Liberation Day, a state holiday, from 1950 to 1967.
“May 8 as liberation day became the core of common German identity,” the embassy said. “But we don’t celebrate today’s May 8 with peaceful confidence because we feel that freedom is not a grandiose end of history. Freedom is not guaranteed at all times. That is why we no longer question ourselves whether May 8 was liberation. An answer to that question was given, and it remains correct. But we should ask ourselves how to remain free,” the post says.
German Instrument of Surrender was signed late at night on May 8, 1945 in Berlin. In Central Europe, it was still May 8. But in Moscow, because of the time difference, it was already after midnight — therefore May 9.
Belarus’ security chief makes false claim that most European states fought alongside Hitler
May 7, Pozirk. Most European states were out to conquer living space in the East, pillage and murder together with Adolf Hitler, claimed Alaksandr Valfovič, state secretary of the Security Council of Belarus, speaking at a ceremony in Minsk on …
