Belarus honors the memory of those killed during the Great Patriotic War

The Chair of the Council of the Republic, members of the Presidium and employees of the Secretariat of the Upper House of Parliament laid flowers at the Masyukovshchina memorial complex. It is located in the middle of a small pine park. Steps lead up to the granite monument, the Eternal Flame burns in memory of the victims. On the territory of the memorial complex, there are mass graves, each of which is marked with a black marble slab. In the middle of the park there is a white rotunda, where, under glass, lies the Book of Memory, in which the names of about 10 thousand former prisoners of Stalag-352 are listed. But the names of more than 70 thousand who died in the concentration camp still remain unknown. At the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, on the territory of a military town in Masyukovshchina, the Nazis set up a concentration camp, which, along with the camp in Trostenets, became a horrific place of extermination of people. There, the Nazis used a particularly cruel system of torture and humiliation. From July 1941 to July 3, 1944 in Stalag-352, more than 80 thousand soldiers and officers of the Red Army were killed, captured, and civilians driven into the camp from Minsk and surrounding villages.