About the participation of S.V.Kulinka in the round table «Genocide of the Soviet people: historical and legal aspects»
On March 21, at the Scientific and Practical Center for the Problems of Strengthening Law and Order of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Belarus, together with the National Center for Legal Information, the Fund for Assistance to Current Historical Research «Historical Memory» (Russian Federation), an international scientific and practical round table «Genocide of the Soviet people: historical and legal aspects».
The beginning of the event was a visit to the exposition of the Museum of the feat of Soviet prisoners of war – prisoners of Stalag-352.
I.A.Marzalyuk, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Education, Culture and Science of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, was the first to address the audience with a scientific report. Speaking about the historiography of the Great Patriotic War, the main concepts of Nazi Germany and the peculiarities of the manifestation of collaborationism in the Belarusian lands, he emphasized that history is a deeply moral science. The speaker cited numerous facts of the use of genocidal practices by the Nazis and their accomplices against the civilian population of Belarus.
The head of the Publications Department of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, Candidate of Historical Sciences S.V.Kulinok made a report on the crimes committed on the territory of Belarus by a special formation of the SS Dirlewanger. The speaker, based on the generalization of a significant amount of archival materials, voiced the main methods for the destruction of the civilian population. The participants of the round table were particularly emotional about the use of the civilian population (women, children and the elderly) by the battalion in the framework of retaliation operations for clearing mines.
Historians and lawyers took part in the work of the scientific forum, which considered the current historical and legal aspects of the Nazi policy of genocide.
