The earliest information on the Byelorussians as a distinct people dates from the 9th to 10th centuries. when Slav tribes founded independent dukedoms. in the same way as many other Slav tribes elsewhere. Despite Byelorussias continued attempts to maintain its own ethnic. religious and political individuality. it has become enslaved today to the Soviet Union. Only the Communist Party is allowed to express itself and after execution squads. mass deportations. and hollow concessions to the national sovereignty of Byelorussia. it was admitted to the United Nations. thereby becoming an instrument of Soviet power. Efforts by Moscow to eradicate the national spirit of the Byelorussians and their desire for independence have turned out a failure: The Byelorussians have not to this day renounced their desire for the restoration of democratic government. as embodied by the Republic which the Soviets overthrew in 1920.
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