The main, most interesting thesis of Yu. Shevtsov’s book is that Belarusians are the people of the Holocaust. They, like the Jews, had the Shoah. And not on its own territory, and bears the name Chernobyl. History is made up of events, that is, cases that have acquired a strategic status. This depends not only on whether the participants in the Holocaust managed to survive, but even more on how exactly they survived. From the global value of their “know-how”. The know-how of survival in post-catastrophe Belarus is still waiting to be described. Chernobyl, which became a burial ground for the authority of the Soviet government, struck Belarus terribly with the wind rose of 1986. And created new markets for its future. Europe abandoned nuclear power plants in horror - and created immense demand for Russian gas, profitably tying Belarus to the transit boom. The subsequent economic collapse in Russia gave impetus to the Minsk economic miracle, accustoming our industry to Belarusian processing.