Freedom Day Is Ours!

And all our heroes will know about it.

Several times I have celebrated Freedom Day behind bars. Every time I made our flag from scrap materials. I saved something tasty to treat myself on the holiday with it together with the essential coffee, my "drink of freedom." I went through letters and postcards - many of them were with a flag, even typographically printed. And hand-drawn, painted ones were just works of art.

Of course, I listened to what was happening outside, recalled how we celebrated this day in different years.

There is one clear pattern: Lukashenka’s regime has always done everything to deprive us of our national holiday. Even if, with the effort, he permitted to get together on that day (especially when Western loans were really needed), he still strove to ruin the holiday: arrange preventive mass detention, send troops, flood the city with punishers, drive people behind a fence. This behavior is explained by the very nature of the Lukashenka regime. This is an occupation regime, aimed at destroying everything Belarusian, and they do not even hide it today.

The dictator's hatred of the holiday of the independent Belarusian state goes off scale, and the combination of "Freedom Day" and "white-red-white" each time causes fits of impotent rage.

It is not the first time that Lukashenka clangs his teeth and weapons before Freedom Day, it is not the first year that he has been driving military equipment and alerting innocent soldiers. This is not the first time this admirer of Hitler has tried to slander the patriots, the people who gave their lives for their native Belarus.

I remember the processions under our flag, surrounded by faceless shield-bearers, and pushing us into shop windows in the hope that the windows would crack, collapse, and kill someone like with a guillotine. But even shop windows on such days were on our side and withstood the onslaught of dark forces together with us.

These invaders have failed and will not succeed.

The opposite happened: the Belarusians rallied, became a people who are determined to defend their country.

Our national flag has become national, social, and the red-green misunderstanding has turned into a "mark of Cain," which will not be so easy to scrape off tomorrow.

To go out or not to go out on Freedom Day is not a question.

Go out!

During the war against the occupiers, everyone takes part in the battles: both regular troops and partisans. They occupy high-rise buildings, march through their cities, plan operations to free prisoners of war. And most importantly, they raise flags.

When I listened to what was happening outside the bars that day, I always received signals that Freedom Day was celebrated with dignity: either the dove brought this information, or the inmates learned from lawyers or even investigators. Sometimes the longitudinal, corps, controllers themselves reported. They reported not even as conspirators, but as our associates, temporarily working for the enemy.

And this time, I am sure, we will celebrate Freedom Day with dignity together with all the people and all of Belarus with our flag.

And all our heroes in Lukashenka's captivity will learn about it.

Freedom Day is ours!

Long live Belarus!

Andrei Sannikau, Facebook