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The self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, called Belarusians “Russians with a quality mark” and found a Slav homeland. He said this while speaking at the international festival “Call of Polissya.”
“As historians say, the Slavs, from whom they were born, and they gave life to it. But there’s no need to be ashamed. People in those ancient times, as a historian I also say, traveled from warmer lands, and that was to the south, to the north,” Lukashenko believes.
He also highlighted the inhabitants of Polissya, calling them people “with a quality mark,” reminding that he previously also characterized all Belarusians.
“Although I sometimes tell the Russians: ‘Belarusians are Russians with a quality mark.’ Some people are sometimes even offended,” Lukashenko said.
He urged to “not go against history,” noting that Belarusians are “a real nation” that has absorbed the cultures of many other countries in the world.
“And the people from Israel—habits, skills, traditions—and from the East and Europe, and since the Kyivan Rus, are higher. Therefore there is no need to be ashamed of this,” Lukashenko said.
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