Moscow 1612
This year, on November 4, Russia for the first time in history officially celebrated the expulsion of Poles (actually, some Poles and a lot of Litvins-Belarusians) from Moscow. Back in 1612, the Muscovites drove out our Grand Lithuanian nobles from their capital, which our ancestors had occupied for several years. Nowdays the holiday is called in Russian “The day of national unity” (!) What is even more bizarre and funny, Orthodox churches in Belarus also celebrated this new Russian holiday. That means, our Orthodox compatriots celebrated the fact that their ancestors were beaten and banished from Muscovy.
