"The days full of joy and happiness have come again." From the archives of the newspaper "Grodzenskaya Pravda" you can find out with what mood Grodno residents celebrated the holiday of September 17 in 1945-1949

The chosen date became a symbol of historical justice for the Belarusian people, unwittingly divided under the terms of the Riga Peace Treaty in 1921. Until September 1939, Western Belarus was part of the Polish state.

For about 20 years "after the Polish hour" the Belarusian people were denied the right to national identity, there was an "attack" on national culture, education ... By 1939, for example, not a single Belarusian school remained in the western part of the country.

The events of September 17, 1939, when the Red Army's liberation campaign began, led to the long-awaited reunification of the western and eastern lands of Belarus. Since then, this date has been symbolic in the history of the country.