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Minsk, Nov. 7 (Interfax) - Belarus marks the October Revolution Day on Nov. 7. The day is a national holiday in Belarus.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has congratulated his compatriots on the holiday, saying that "history again confirms the significance of the Great October ideals: the liberation of workers from exploitation and oppression and the introduction of equal rights and social justice."

"People’s wish for self-determination and independence in their home land was preserved by our grandfathers and fathers during the foreign intervention and in the tragic period of the Great Patriotic War and the difficult 1990s," Lukashenko said in his congratulatory address to the people of Belarus.

Lukashenko said that the people of Belarus have chosen to build a sovereign socially oriented state.

"The implementation of our model of development has helped us raise our industry and agriculture to a new level and increase out national wellbeing," Lukashenko said.

No big state-level events are planned on the October Revolution Day in Belarus, an Interfax correspondent has reported.

Representatives of left-wing parties are expected to traditionally lay down wreaths of flowers to the Lenin monument on Independence Square.

Representatives of the Belarusian Communist Party and members of the opposition party Just World are expected to come to the Government House.