Historian: Victims of both regimes should be commemorated in Trastsyanets
Alyaksandr Lukashenka said that a memorial will
be built at the site of the former death
Prominent historian Ihar Kuznyatsou says that
the memorial should commemorate victims of both fascism and communism. But not
a single design plan brought up mass executions carried out before the Nazi invasion.
"About
four years ago, the government announced a competition for the best design. Prominent
Belarusian architects took part in it, including Levin, and German designers. But
no one knew anything about the concept of the memorial. Later, it turned out
that the government would not like the memorial to reflect the theme of pre-war
executions by secret police in Trastsyanets. The architects were offered to
build a memorial to victims of the Nazis only," Kuznyatsou told Euroradio.
However, the historian doubts that all the proposals were rejected because they
did not take into account victims of the communist regime.
