BETWEEN POLAND AND BELARUS: POLITICS OF STATE HISTORY IN BELARUS ABOUT SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1939, WORLD WAR II, AND BUILDING THE NATION
Journal: Veredas do Direito Direito Ambiental e Desenvolvimento Sustentável
Year: 2025

It aims to answer questions related to the possibility of a synchronization of memory related to the moment of September 17th, 1939, perceived contradictorily in Belarus and Poland. Furthermore, we would also like to cover some of the objectives of the national identity construction that the Minsk regime has ideologically built during the last three decades. Instrumentalized by political and ideological discourse, it is the institutionalized memory of the state that sustains the long-term surviv