Anyone else concerned by this? Anyone at all?
The time has come for a forgetful Europe to go through moral cleansing, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a meeting in the run-up to Independence Day in Minsk on 2 July, BelTA has learned.
The head of state noted that Belarus intends to show the world the truth about all the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.
"They - all who chose to forget - will have to look again at the grueling evidence of the bloody crimes of their own fathers and grandfathers. I must admit that we were delicately silent. In our Slavic way we believed that children were not responsible for their parents. We still think so. But the time has come for the forgetful Europe to give itself a moral cleansing," Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed.
"Cleansing."
Cleansing. Really?
I mean, yes, he said "moral cleansing."
Historically, you know who usually says that sort of thing? People who eventually want to do an actual cleansing of some kind.
And I mean, yes, of course, any sort of Nazi or Commie influence should be purged from any society in which it has found purchase. No questions there.
Yet still...the term "cleanse."
I just...
Let's just hope cool heads prevail over there!
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