Ok, so my teachers want me to submit this piece to the country of Belarus AND to some famousauthor that writes and reasearches different countries around the world. Since I was the only one in my school who knew anything about Belarus, they put me up on this tast. And they watched me do it.... IS IT REALLY THAT GOOD?
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BELARUS
Until the 20th century Belarus belonged to several countries including Poland, Lithuania, Russia and the Polish-
Lithuanian Commonwealth. Later on from being ruled by the Soviet
Union, Belarus became a part of the USSR, and was renamed as
the Byelorussian SSR. In 1939 there were still parts of Belarus
that were controlled by Poland. The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist
Republic got rid of the polish that controlled that part of Belarus
as the result of the Soviet invasion of Poland. Most of Belarus was
in ruins during and after World War II. Belarus lost about one third
of it’s population and half of it’s economic resources. During the
post-war years Belarus was rebuilding it’s people and it’s
government. Also in 1945 Belorussian SSR became a member of
the United Nations as well as the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian
SSR. The parliament of the republic declared the sovereignty of
Belarus on July, 27, 1990 and during the dissolution of the Soviet
Union, Belarus declared independence on August, 25, 1991. Since
2000 Belarus and Russia signed a treaty for better and more
greater cooperation forming a Union State. More than 80% of the
Belarusian population were native Belarusians with a hand full of
Russians, Poles, and Ukrainians. Since a referendum in 1995, the
country has two official languages, Russian and Belarusian. The
constitution of Belarus dose not say that there is an official
religion for the country, but the most religion used is the Russian
Orthodox Christianity. The second most popular is Roman
Catholicism. Both are very different but they both allow Christmas
and Easter as national holidays. Belarus also has the highest
Human Development Index among members of the Commonwealth
of Independent States.
