Belaruskaya Gazeta

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Belaruskaya Gazeta (

The first issue of the Menskaya Gazeta (21 September 1941) contained two large articles constantly referring to the "Jewish Question". The first of them, "Traces of Years", written by the Belarusian poet Vladimir Duditsky [be], summed up the twenty-year history of Soviet Belarus, or, as the author wrote, "Bolshevik‑Jewish domination" in the country.

In another issue of Menskaya Gazeta, an article was published by U. Glybinny (pseudonym of Vladimir Seduro) "In the hands of the executioners," also soaked through with

The newspaper published speeches and articles by the leaders of

The newspaper published popular essays on the history and culture of Belarus, many of which were politicized and close to journalism, materials on the history of Belarusian emigration, about Belarusian traditions and rituals, the origin of Belarusian symbols, etc. On the pages of the newspaper were placed memoirs of participants of the Russian Civil War, materials about Stalin's crimes (articles about the Katyn massacre, NKVD camps, memoirs, testimonies of former prisoners, etc.), literary-critical articles, reviews, etc.

For the first time, some texts of the repressed dead writers of the USSR were printed: the poem "Tastament" ("Testament") of Uładzimir Žyłka and the novel "Vilna Communards" (in excerpts) of Maksim Haretski.

A number of publications of the newspaper of the end of 1943 — beginning of 1944 are saturated with pessimism, doom, disappointment in the chosen path. However, these sentiments did not affect the anti-Soviet direction of the publication.^[1][2]

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