“Reading Newspaper Lines with Your Heart”: Project and Publications by the National Library of Belarus for the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War

Abstract

The article presents the project and publications "Reading Newspaper Lines with Your Heart" of the National Library of Belarus, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders and the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, created on the basis of the BSSR (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic) newspapers of 1944-1945. The project and publications in a weekly or twice a week chronicle present a panorama of the events of the military operations of the Red Army and the partisan movement of the final stages of the Great Patriotic War, the revival of all sectors of the economy. The relevance of the article is due to the fact that newspapers, as a reliable source, participate in the modern information war against the falsification of history. Publications based on them contribute to the popularization of reliable knowledge and patriotic education of the younger generation. The purpose of the article is to give a brief description of the project and provide examples of publications on the liberation of Belarus, the restoration of various aspects of peaceful life. The objectives of the article are to show, using newspaper publications as an example, the bright moments of the liberation of the BSSR, the restoration of agriculture, logging, public and housing stock, and to cite publications about the Russian Orthodox Church and the Cherkasov movement. The daily military and labor feat of the Soviet people can be read among the lines of newspaper publications.