From the 6th century to the 7th century, the first Slavs entered Belarus from Ukraine. In the 8th-9th century, Slavs in Belarus gradually assimilated the local Baltic tribes and became the ancestors of today's Belarusians.
The ancestors of the Russians came from the Ross tribe of the Eastern Slavs, and at the end of A.D. 15, a unified feudal country centered on the Grand Duchy of Moscow was formed. Ivan IV was renamed Tsar in 1547, and Peter I was awarded the title of "All-Russian Emperor" by the Senate in 172 1, and the Russian Empire was established.
Belarus in Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Period;
With the Russian-Soviet Revolution and the outbreak of World War I, Belarus broke away from the rule of tsarist Russia and established the first truly sovereign country in the history of Belarus-the People's Republic of Belarus. From 65438 to 0922, Belarus joined the Soviet Union and became one of the first four countries to join the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
After joining the Soviet Union, communism, which abandoned national barriers, began to become the mainstream ideology in Belarus. Under the ideological trend of "uniting the three ethnic groups in Eastern Slavs", a broader national identity began to prevail. After the outbreak of World War II, Belarusians United under the banner of the Soviet Union, paid a huge sacrifice of14 of the national population, won a great victory in the Great Patriotic War, and enhanced the recognition of Belarusians to the Soviet Union and the Eastern Slavs.
However, the Great Soviet Union disintegrated at 199 1, but the collective recognized by itself "died" in front of its own eyes, and the collapse of faith made the Belarusians go to the extreme of de-Soviet. People began to regard Moscow as their greatest enemy, denied "the past fabricated by Russian historians" from textbooks, and advocated the total collapse of Western Europe. However, the rising nationalist sentiment did not help Belarus get out of the predicament of economic retrogression and the decline of people's living standards. On the contrary, it further aggravated the chaos of the situation, and the economic scale shrank by 2 1.6% compared with that before the disintegration.
1994, Lukashenko became the president of Belarus, and Belarus began to improve. Deeply influenced by the Soviet Union, Belarus has relations with Russia in politics, economy and culture. Forcibly cutting off all relations with Russia is tantamount to completely overthrowing its achievements in development and construction for hundreds of years.
Lukashenko, President of Belarus for five consecutive years, has been a veritable "dictator" in the eyes of Europeans and Americans since 1994 came to power. Since we can't leave, we should take the initiative to hug him. Under the leadership of Lukashenko, Belarus began to actively contact with Russia, improve relations between the two countries, and fully support Russia in the diplomatic field.
Although Russia also faces difficulties after the disintegration, the thin camel is bigger than the horse. Relying on Russia's huge size, Belarus quickly got out of chaos and became the fastest growing country in Eastern Europe. From 65438 to 0996, the two countries announced the establishment of a community and signed the treaty of Russia-Belarus alliance, which went further and further on the road of integration.
While approaching Russia, Belarus has also embarked on the road of independence, and the concepts of Belarusians and Belarusians have been widely recognized.
After entering the 2 1 century, the powerful Putin became the president of Russia. With the support of energy economy, he gradually got out of the shadow of the 1990s, restored Russia with a little influence, and began to be tough on the Belarus issue. In 2002, Putin proposed that Belarus join Russia in a federal form, which was severely rejected by Lukashenko, saying: "Belarus will never become a part of any country."
For the disgraced Lukashenko, Putin directly cut off the general gas supply in Belarus, which triggered a series of contradictions and the relationship between the two countries fell to freezing point.
What Russia didn't expect was that the former small partners fell to the United States and Western Europe one by one. First, the Baltic countries Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia joined NATO, and Russia's northwest border faced military pressure from NATO. Then the Eastern Slavic brother Ukraine decided to break away from itself, which triggered the Ukrainian crisis. Russia doesn't want to lose its last old brother Belarus. Relations between the two countries began to ease, and the integration of Russia-Belarus alliance returned to the right track.
However, today's Russia is no longer the all-powerful European gendarmerie, and it has no ability to set off a torrent of steel behind the iron curtain. Belarus has the confidence and ability to decide its future destiny, as Lukashenko said: We will not choose the East or the West, but we will choose Belarus, which will stand between the East and the West with its own economic strength, historical accumulation, vast geographical and cultural spirit.