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Byelorussia
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English
Etymology
en ru Белоруссия.
Pronunciation
en /ˌbjɛləˈɹʌʃə/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Byelorussia.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en Q184 en historical Belarus
en 1992 w:Richard Nixon The Former Evil Empire Seize the Moment https://archive.org/details/seizemomentameri00nixo/ w:Simon & Schuster 0-671-74343-0 91-37743 440652941 57 https://archive.org/details/seizemomentameri00nixo/page/57/ In Byelorussia, Stalin not only killed 100,000 people in purges and repression in the 1930s but also doomed 1.5 million people and 75 percent of the republic's cities and towns to death and destruction through his half-witted military strategies in World War II.
Derived terms
en Byelorussian
en Countries in Europe