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Altogether, over 2,000,000 people were killed in Belarus during the three years of German occupation, almost a quarter of the region's population. [25] [26] Belarus-born Andrei Gromyko (right) served as Soviet foreign minister (1957–1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1988)
According to incomplete estimates, approximately 600,000 people fell victim to Soviet repression in Belarus between the October Revolution in 1917 and the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Other estimates rise the number to more than 1.4 million people, [ 4 ] with 250,000 sentenced by the judiciary or executed by extrajudicial bodies ...
The effects of the Chernobyl accident in Belarus were dramatic: about 50,000 km 2 (or about a quarter of the territory of Belarus) formerly populated by 2.2 million people (or a fifth of the Belarusian population) now require permanent radioactive monitoring (after receiving doses over 37 kBq/m 2 of caesium-137). 135,000 persons were ...
Viktar Hanchar, or Viktar Hančar (Belarusian: Віктар Ганчар, Russian: Виктор Гончар, Viktor Gonchar, September 7, 1957 – disappeared September 16, 1999) was a Belarusian politician who disappeared and was presumably murdered in 1999. He was born in the village of Radzichava, Slutsk Raion.
The repatriation of Poles in 1955–1959, also known as the second repatriation, [1] to distinguish it from the first repatriation in 1944–1946, was the second wave of forced repatriation (or deportation) of Poles living in the territories annexed by the Soviet Union (known as Kresy Wschodnie) in the aftermath of World War II.
In a statement on Telegram seen by the BBC, the State Border Committee said only certain citizens would be able to leave.
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The Belarusian people trace their distinct culture to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, earlier Kievan Rus' and the Principality of Polotsk. [ 44 ] Litvin was a term used to describe all residents of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, primarily those belonging to the noble state , without distinction of ethnicity or religion.