Occupants Or Idiots?

Three letters are missing from the name of the Minister of the Interior.

The Belarusian authorities marked the outgoing year with arrests, and started the new year with trials of those who participated in the actions for the independence of Belarus.

New Year’s news reminded the confrontation in the occupied lands. People took to the streets of their native cities in defense of their country, but for this they were arrested, tried, fined, torn away for New Year and Christmas from their families, wives, and children.

Who could do such a thing? I predict the answer of many readers: only occupants.

Or idiots. Which, in my opinion, is our case.

Why are people being punished who, knowing the consequences, still go to mass protests to say that the Belarusian idea is alive in the hearts of Belarusians? That the game of expanding the empire will not be a game of geopolitical chess, where Belarus is a pawn. People went to the rally for Belarus with the slogan “Long Live Belarus!”. And if we have Belarusian power, then what are these people being punished for?

Because they are patriots?

Because they are citizens of their country?

Because they are ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of their country?

Does the Minister of Internal Affairs Karaev realize what he is doing, sending his fighters to the courts to testify about some offenses allegedly committed by those who took to the streets in support of the country's independence? If you don’t understand what kind of image of the police they create this way, then consider that the three letters in the minister’s name have disappeared - and you will get Karatelev (*the Punisher).

By what right did the Belarusian courts regard the desire of people to express their position in defense of the sovereignty of their country as illegal actions? In what law did they read that public manifestations of patriotic feelings should be punished?

And I don’t need to powder my brains about formalities - they say that the law on holding mass events was violated, since the actions were not authorized. If a passerby jumps in the Svislach river to rescue a drowning person, they will not be punished for swimming in the wrong place. And the one who pulled the drunk from behind the wheel of a car will not be punished for the misappropriation of authority of a traffic policeman. On the contrary, they will be awarded a medal! Because a person, without hesitation, rushed to save others.

People who took part in the actions in support of Belarusian independence came out to save their country. They can’t, it’s impossible to punish them! But they punished. Punished unjustly and meanly. And personally, I insist that the wrong people were punished.

If you remember, we have large public organizations that are financed from the budget, well-fed, groomed, successful and prosperous. I mean the Belaya Rus and the Belarusian Republican Youth Union. They tell everyone that they are power. That they decide something. That they have thousands and thousands of supporters.

Why didn’t they bring their people to the action “For Belarus”? Why didn’t they come out to support Lukashenka in complicated negotiations with Vladimir Putin? Why are they always near the feedbox, and never show any unauthorized, patriotic impulse, not under some command or order?

They are not even where their ruler is. Indeed, Lukashenka in an interview with Alexei Venediktov said that he understands the people who took to the streets of Minsk in defense of the sovereignty and independence of Belarus. But the leader of Belaya Rus Henadz Davydzka does not understand. He only saw hype in all this.

“I find it ridiculous and sad when some media outlets present to the public a girl of 7-8 years old with a poster in her hands: “No to integration!” Why use a child? What does this girl understand in such matters? And what do you understand? Do you need some hype, do you want to make some noise, tag yourself on a replicated picture? ” said Henadz Davydzka.

And now another quote - so that you appreciate the level of “intellectual” Henadz Davydzka, and his understanding of the problem. “Independence? But can we not move freely across borders, seek work where we wish? What other degree of freedom is needed? ”, the leader of Belaya Rus argued at the height of the debate over the threats of integration with Russia.

If everyone reasons like Davydzka, then the right to leave your apartment, your house will have to be regarded as proof of independence. And to get away from the country without hindrance - this, according to Henadz Davydzka, will generally be proof of the existence of all conceivable freedoms! Maybe he would also tell me to say thanks, or kiss the boot? ..

All this is neither funny nor even sad. This is a tragedy! That such Davydzka has an honorary title from the Republic of Belarus, he was awarded the Francysk Skaryna medal, he is a former senator, now a deputy, the leader of the largest public organization created by the state. And, for example, Pavel Seviarynets, the leader and initiator of the December rallies in defense of independence, spent his birthday behind bars for the sixth time. He had it on December 30, and at that time Seviarynets was again in the Center for Isolation of Law-Breakers in the Akrestsin Street in Minsk.

“My son spent his 29, 30, 34, 35, 36, 43th birthdays behind bars: deportation to the Maloye Sitna, Polatsk region (29, 30); the KGB jail (30); the special commandant’s office in Kuplin, the Pruzhany district (35,36). Center for Isolation of Law-Breakers in the Akrestsin Street - 43 ... [Pavel] never dreamed of celebrating his birthday on an exotic island, in an expensive restaurant, somewhere on barbecue ... He dreamed of a birthday in a free Belarus. I really want your dream, my son, to come true !!! ” Pavel’s mother Tatsiana Seviarynets wrote on her Facebook page.

All normal people, and even Henadz Davydzka, if he is capable of dreaming of something not measured in money, dream about it. Because this cannot and should not be - patriots held behind bars, punished for their love to the homeland, for the willingness to defend this homeland. This is absurd! It is a crime! This is a distorted understanding of state interests. This is a rejection of all conceivable values.

What happens when the value scale shifts? If a person has it, then we say “non-human” about them. As they find acceptable what is vile to the society, and vice versa. Well, if the state’s scale of values is shifting? What are the implications? For the state this is a disaster. And we are moving towards this disaster, to the applause of such as Davydzka.

Sviatlana Kalinkina, Narodnaya Volya