Belarus, Russia actively cooperate in studying common history, protecting historical truth

Igor Sergeyenko said: “Today we say that peace came at a huge price: millions of lives of our compatriots, millions of lives of representatives of all peoples of the powerful country of the Soviet Union. I am grateful to my Russian colleagues, with whom we advance active cooperation today in studying our common history and in protecting historical truth about those tragic yet heroic days.”

The exhibition project Ordinary Nazism began with an exposition, which opened in the Victory Museum in Moscow in spring 2022. It continued with the Ordinary Nazism exhibition held in Rostov-on-Don, Nalchik, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, and other Russian cities. Now the travelling exhibition is open to Belarus residents.

The exhibition is dedicated to the tragedy of Donbass civilians and to crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

Igor Sergeyenko said: “I am convinced that the exhibition is another page in our common history, a tribute to the Great Victory of the Soviet nation in the Great Patriotic War when all the peoples of the Soviet Union fought shoulder to shoulder. I am convinced that here we will see new pages that testify to the cruel and inhumane image of Nazism and neo-Nazism.”

He compared the exhibition to the well-known Soviet film Ordinary Fascism and remarked that the film was one of the first post-war attempts to show the savage image of fascism and Nazism.

Chairman of the Russian Historical Society, Director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin said that the exhibition had been prepared by a group of employees of Russia's leading museums, who work in the zone of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.

“This practice began during the Great Patriotic War [of 1941-1945]. Workers of Soviet museums followed advancing units of the Red Army and collected evidence of those heroic and tragic events in order to preserve the memory of our nation's Great Victory over German Nazism,” he added.