Belarusian deputies will celebrate the anniversary of the country's transformation into a seedy Polish province
Deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus will take part in festive events dedicated to the 450th anniversary of the Union of Lublin, which will take place on June 29 in Lublin (Poland).
This was reported on the official website of the Belarusian parliament in the section "Main events for the current week," reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The quantitative and qualitative composition of the Belarusian delegation has not been specified.
“Two countries - the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland - united into one federal Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The union strengthened the medieval Belarusian state, which itself could not cope with external aggressions,” explains the Belarusian service of the American Radio Liberty.
In fact, under the terms of the Union of Lublin in 1569, Lithuania, which included Belarusian lands, lost its independent foreign policy and became a Polish province.
The Western Russian literary language was legally prohibited for drawing up acts. His place was taken by the Polish.
By the time of reunification with Russia, the Western Russian written language was already dead. The spoken language became “the language of a pop and a bang” - this is what the Polish gentlemen contemptuously called Western Russian speech.
At the end of the XNUMXth century, the Belarusian lands were a seedy Polish province, where the upper class considered themselves Poles, spoke Polish, belonged to Polish culture, and went to Roman Catholic churches.