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On September 17, Belarus celebrates the National Unity Day, which was established on June 7, 2021 by decree No. 206 of the Head of State Alexander Lukashenko
The holiday is timed to the anniversary of the beginning of the Red Army liberation campaign in Western Belarus in 1939, as a result of which the Belarusian people divided under the terms of the Riga Peace Treaty reunited. The Day of National Unity – September 17 – serves as another reminder of the inviolability and self -sufficiency of the Belarusian nation and statehood, forms a sense of involvement in the country and the fate of each citizen.
