A memorial service dedicated to National Remembrance Day for the Victims of the Great Patriotic War and the Genocide of the Belarusian People was held at the memorial complex in Slutsk

On June 22, 2026, employees of the Zonal State Archives in Slutsk took part in a memorial service dedicated to National Remembrance Day for the Victims of the Great Patriotic War and the Genocide of the Belarusian People, which was held at the memorial complex in Slutsk.

June 22 marks National Remembrance Day for the Victims of the Great Patriotic War and the Genocide of the Belarusian People in Belarus. Eighty-five years separate us from that dawn in June 1941. But with each passing year, with each passing day, we become more acutely aware of the greatness of our people’s heroism and the enormity of the crimes committed on our land. Belarusian soil is drenched in blood. One in three Belarusians died during the Great Patriotic War. These are not just numbers. These are the lives of millions—husbands and wives, the elderly and children.

On the very first day of the war, the Soviet people made their choice: to stand with their Fatherland in times of danger, to defend it to the death. And they persevered: the trials of wartime remain for us an unfading example of the strength of the national spirit, incredible courage, and sacrifice for our native land.

June 22 is marked in the calendar of our national history as the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War and the Genocide of the Belarusian People. But it is also a day of warning and reminder. We will defend the truth about this war, about the attempt to destroy us as a nation, we will not allow it to be distorted or misrepresented, and we will not allow the memory of the fallen to be desecrated.

We observed a moment of silence in memory of the fallen, and flowers were laid at the Eternal Flame and mass graves.

Pictured: A requiem meeting at the memorial complex in Slutsk.