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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
MINSK, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — The new generation must preserve the memory and not allow lies to distort history, Alexei Avdonin, secretary for international affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, told Xinhua in Minsk.
A. Avdonin made the corresponding statement during the opening of a photo exhibition entitled “Remembering the Past, Creating the Future” in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggressors and the World Anti-Fascist War. The exhibition opened on August 15 in the Victory Hall of the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War.
“It is very important for Belarusians to see this exhibition because it shows that the Chinese people, together with the Soviet people, waged a joint struggle against militaristic Japan in order to liberate the Chinese people from occupation,” noted A. Avdonin.
He noted that the photographs very clearly demonstrate the violence and atrocities that militaristic Japan brought to the Chinese people in the early 1930s.
"There was a brutal occupation of coastal territories, and entire settlements in China were cut out. China was the first to experience the full horror of fascist nationalist ideology back in the 1930s, when Hitler was just coming to power in Europe. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Chinese people, together with the Soviet people, entered into a brutal battle with militaristic Japan and won," the Xinhua source said.
He stressed that this exhibition and other similar commemorative events are extremely important for Belarusian youth, because they allow them to touch the events of the past and see real history in photographs, which is sometimes impossible to find on the Internet.
"We must also understand that there are forces of the collective West that are trying to create neo-fascism, neo-Nazism. This is extremely dangerous. And in this regard, Belarus and China are jointly opposing attempts to revise history and the revival of neo-fascism. We must understand that fascism and Nazism always try to justify their atrocities. The new generation must preserve the memory and not allow lies to distort history," A. Avdonin believes. –0–
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