Dear Friends, I originally published this on 8 May, when the end of the Second World War in Europe in commemorated. Ten days from now, 22 June 2021, will be the eightieth anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union that began the most destructive and deadliest part of the Second World War. Belarus was at the very cente…
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