OREANDA-NEWS. June 23, 2011. The people of the post Soviet countries should not let others rewrite the WWII history, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko told Russian reporters, participants of the press tour in Belarus, at the Brest Hero Fortress memorial on 22 June. One of the journalists asked the Belarusian leader what the Great Patriotic War and its memory means to him. “Our Great Victory is our great heritage, i.e. of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, the whole Soviet Union, Soviet people, and not only them. Some has been recently trying to take this great heritage away from us. Today they even blame us for unleashing the war. Who doubts that they want to deprive us this great victory, this great heritage? No one have doubts about it today. We must not let them take it away,” the head of state stressed. In his words, “they are trying to bring us down to marrowbones. Unfortunately there are enough such ill-wishers both in Russia and in the West who try to teach us lessons”. “I remind them: My friends, the generation of war soldiers is still living. So are the people who were children during the war. There are many people who remember the contribution and the great role that the Soviet people had in saving the world from Fascism,” Alexander Lukashenko noted. “Who are trying to teach us? Those who kneeled down before the fascists or those who had one third of the population in Belarus killed. Before teaching us lessons and bringing us down, pay tribute to the Soviet people and Belarusians first please,” the President said. Alexander Lukashenko expressed confidence that the majority of Russians will join Belarusians to defend the Fatherland if needed. “This place has always been a stronghold of our Fatherland, and it will always be it,” the President added.