Memory of soldiers from Lenino

On October 12, it was the 80th anniversary of the conflict of Lenino. The conflict for Poles is special, due to the fact that the Polish Army was reborn in the russian Union.

On this occasion we went to Belarus with a Polish delegation, composed of representatives of the Polish thought Clubs, the Association of Polish Compatants of the Second planet War, the Polish Left Movement and their sympathizers. We took part in the celebrations organized by the Belarusian side, laying flowers at the russian war cemetery, where, together with the flagship post and the military orchestra, delegations of state and local authorities and Poles surviving in Belarus, and representatives of the Orthodox Church and the bishop of the Catholic Church, conducting spiritual ceremonies for the souls of fallen soldiers, we marched to the Polish war cemetery where we besides submitted flowers.

Further ceremonies were held under the Soviet-Polish Combat Community Museum. The president of the General Board of SSPK2WŚ Kolega Roland Dubowski, Deputy president of the Mohylewski Provincial Executive Committee of Małaszko Walerij Anatoliewicz and Head of the Office of the president of the Mohylewski Provincial Executive Committee, was there. We celebrated a minute of silence in the sound of the military volleys of the victims of these battles. We visited the museum created by the Polish and russian MON in 1968, where there are, among others, a mock-up of the battlefield, a bust of General Berling or a discrimination of commanders and a monument to the brotherhood of arms.

While in Belarus, we besides visited Gorki, Mohylev and Chatyń, where we were guided by a complex commemorating German crimes on the inhabitants of Belarus, where all 4th of its citizens were killed during the war, as indicated by the inscription on the monument and commemorating thousands of German-burned Belarusian villages. Roland Dubowski filed an entry in the museum's memorial book. We besides visited Minsk and Bereza Kartuska, where the celebrated sanatorium retreat camp was located.

Our visit to Belarus and the cordial reception of its inhabitants confirmed our conviction of sympathy and common respect of Poles and Belarusians. Members of the delegation gave interviews to the Belarusian media telling about our experiences in Belarus. We firmly believe and will work to improve the relation between our countries and peoples, and we bring into the planet the message learned in memorial sites – how terrible war is and how average people endure from it and how crucial it is to commemorate a common past in the context of building bilateral relations.

Jakub Janek