Students of the Minsk Radio Engineering College took part in the requiem meeting “And let generations remember,” which took place today in the foyer of the Oval Hall of the Government House.
The requiem meeting was timed to coincide with the Day of National Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War and the Genocide of the Belarusian People .
The event was attended by chairmen of the standing committees of the House of Representatives, deputies of the House of Representatives from Minsk, members of the Council of the Republic, employees of the Secretariat of the House of Representatives, and youth representatives.
Speaking to the audience, Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Sergeenko I. P. spoke about the activities of the Supreme Council of the BSSR of the first convocation.
He noted that the Supreme Council had made fateful decisions. Its deputies stood at the origins of the formation of the constitutional foundations of Belarusian statehood. At the extraordinary third session of the Supreme Council, which took place in November 1939, a historic decision was made to include the western regions into the Belarusian SSR.
During the war, deputies fought heroically at the fronts, were active participants in the partisan movement and underground, and worked in the rear. Every fifth of them died in battle, was shot, tortured by the Nazis, or went missing. For personal courage and bravery, many were awarded orders and medals.
Chairman of the Standing Commission of the House of Representatives on Human Rights, National Relations and the Media N. E. Buzin, speaking about the heroism of the Belarusian people shown during the war, emphasized the importance of preserving historical memory and continuity of generations.
At the end, the participants of the requiem meeting laid flowers at the memorial plaques installed in the foyer of the Oval Hall of the Government House in memory of the 94 deputies of the Supreme Council of the BSSR of the first convocation who died and disappeared during the Great Patriotic War.
After the requiem meeting, college students took a tour of the Government House.
