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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

Ancestors’ remembrance day in Belarus

1 November, 2011 - 00:00
ON OCTOBER 30, SOME 1,000 PERSONS TOOK PART IN A MARCH HEADED FOR KUROPATY, A WOODED AREA IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF MINSK, CAPITAL OF BELARUS, WHERE MORE THAN 200,000 INNOCENT INDIVIDUALS HAD BEEN SHOT DURING STALIN’S PURGES. THEY TOOK PART IN THE DZIADY, AN ANCIENT SLAVIC FEAST TO COMMEMORATE THE DEAD [“DZIADY” MEANS FOREFATHERS AND IS TRADITIONALLY MARKED TWICE A YEAR, IN SPRING AND AUTUMN] / REUTERS photo
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