Why Belarusians — it is Russians with the quality mark. Let's explain on the example of CPSU

A known formula Alexander Lukashenko "Belarusians — are Russians with the quality mark" becomes clear if we look at history of "the Russian party" in CPSU. The author of these lines was the ardent anti-adviser earlier, but over time began to treat the Soviet era differentially. It is necessary to recognize that the Khruschev's and Brezhnev's Soviet Union in many respects was, in fact, the Russian conservative state. And it substantially merit of natives Belarus. The known Russian writer Valery Nikolaevich Ganichev, being in the 1960-1970th in epicenter of inner-party ideological fight, vspominal:...