{"id":45487,"date":"2023-01-25T22:19:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/culture-ministry-some-2m-people-saw-genocide-exhibits-in-2022\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"culture-ministry-some-2m-people-saw-genocide-exhibits-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45487\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture ministry: some 2m people saw \u201cgenocide\u201d exhibits in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>January 25, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> The \u201cgenocide\u201d of the Belarusian people during World War II has become a major theme for museums in 2022, a senior cultural official has told a news conference in Minsk.<\/p>\n<p> About two million people visited the exhibitions, said Iryna Karpovi\u010d, a department head at the culture ministry. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cIn close cooperation with the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office, the topic is deeply embedded in museum expositions. Every museum has it,\u201d Karpovi\u010d said. She specified that last year, 315 such exhibitions were organized in 152 state museums.<\/p>\n<p> After the 2020 post-election protests, officials in Minsk have been promoting a theory that the Belarusians suffered genocide at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators during WWII. In April 2021 Prosecutor General Andrej \u0160vied announced that his office had opened a genocide case. The prosecutor general also edited a book that likened participants in 2020 peaceful protests to the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022 Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka signed a law that criminalized denial of&nbsp;the genocide. \u201cThe implementation of the Law will contribute to preventing distortion of the Great Patriotic War\u2019s outcomes, as well to uniting Belarusian society,\u201d his press service said.<\/p>\n<p>Russian and Belarusian propaganda has also promoted a false narrative that portrays Ukrainian politicians and soldiers as Nazis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 25, BPN. The \u201cgenocide\u201d of the Belarusian people during World War II has become a major theme for museums in 2022, a senior cultural official has told a news conference in Minsk. About two million people visited the exhibitions, said Iryna Karpovi\u010d, a department head at the culture ministry. \u201cIn close cooperation with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45487","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Culture ministry: some 2m people saw \u201cgenocide\u201d exhibits in 2022 | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 25, BPN. 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