Issued to mark the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War — the Soviet designation for the Eastern Front conflict of 1941–1945. Belarus suffered among the highest per-capita losses of any Soviet republic during the occupation, with estimates suggesting roughly a quarter of the prewar population perished. That historical weight sits behind essentially every Belarusian commemorative of this period.
Issued to mark the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War — the Soviet designation for the Eastern Front conflict of 1941–1945. Belarus suffered among the highest per-capita losses of any Soviet republic during the occupation, with estimates suggesting roughly a quarter of the prewar population perished. That historical weight sits behind essentially every Belarusian commemorative of this period.