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Lukashenko: Belarus will not be someone's 'kresy'
When in alliance with East Slavic neighbors Belarusian lands made progress, while in the arms of the West — declined, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the patriotic forum «This is OUR History!» to mark the Day of People's Unity in Minsk on 17 September, BelTA has learned. «We will remember (we can't do without it!) and remind everyone that when in alliance with the East Slavic neighbors the Belarusian lands made progress (Kievan Rus, the Russian Empire, the USSR), while in the arms of the West (more than once we were there) we declined, we degraded as a nation. We were robbed, destroyed as an ethnic group both in the time of Rzeczpospolita and during the period of 20-year Polish rule of our western lands. The lands that today's Polish elites call as their „Kresy Wschodnie“(Eastern Borderlands).