Russia Captured Even Sakhalin, But Vorsha Remains Belarusian City Today

This is the art of war — to have strong allies.

On September 8, 2022, a solemn celebration of the Day of Belarusian Military Glory took place in the center of Warsaw.

Dzmitry Bandarenka, coordinator of the European Belarus civil campaign, spoke at the event:

“Happy holiday, dear Belarusians as well as Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians. The victory near Vorsha is our common victory. This battle was included in the history books and military textbooks because it was actually a big victory. But today there are historians, Lukashenka's, Russian ones, who say: “This battle was too long ago, not so many Muscovites were beaten there, only 80 thousand. The goals set by Prince Astrozhski were not achieved ... ”, and other nonsense. But think about it — more than 500 years have passed, and Vorsha is still ours, and the border with the eastern despotism lies beyond Vorsha.

This means that battle was important, as well as the battles of other heroes, the same Vorsha governor Kmita, who became Kmitits in the “Flood” by Sienkiewicz. As well as the battle of our great writer Karatkevich, who was born in Vorsha, as well as the battle of the Belarusian military association, which in the early 90s marched through the center of Minsk to the sound of drums.

Imagine: a huge Russia, which after 1514 was able to capture and hold the Kazan Khanate, the entire Volga, the Urals, part of the Caucasus, Siberia, even Sakhalin. But Vorsha remains a Belarusian city today.

They can say that there is a dictatorship in Belarus, there is Lukashenka in Belarus. So do we have independence? I would like to recall the words of the well-known figure of the new Belarusian Renaissance, Professor Yury Khadyka, of blessed memory, who said that many peoples do not have their own state. Kurds, of which there are tens of millions, do not have it. Tatars, who are as many as Belarusians, probably do not have. The Crimean Tatars do not have, the Uighurs do not have, the Tibetans do not have their own state. Even the proud Scots are fighting for their independence. And Belarusians have their own independent state.

Dictatorships come and go, but Belarus remains forever.

Belarusians are sometimes told: “You are not ready to be in the European Union, maybe someday you will join. You can't even dream about NATO at all. The best thing that can be for you is Finnishization.” But today we already know that Sweden and Finland have almost joined NATO. And we will also go this way, and we will be like these countries. Sweden has been neutral for hundreds of years, but now both Sweden and Finland are members of NATO and part of the EU.

And I, as a representative of the European Belarus civil campaign, say: Our goal is, like the Finns, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Poles, like Ukrainians dream of it, to be members of the European Union. Because we are born with it. The first condition for joining the European Union is to be geographically in Europe. The second condition is democracy. You see, we already have 50%. It is only necessary to return democracy, return freedom to our country.

I predict that soon the events will develop very dynamically. We see the last, perhaps, the throw of Muscovy — Russia to the West. Today, our Ukrainian brothers are fighting for their own and our freedom, as has been the case for centuries. And with them are Belarusians, Poles, other peoples of Europe, the United States, Australia, Japan, Canada.

Yes, in fact, in 1514, near Vorsha, we won together with our allies. This is the art of war — to have strong allies. Today we have even more allies. We are part of a larger democratic world.

I would like to say one more such thing: there was one slogan, it was very popular at the demonstrations of the 90s and it sounded like this: Belarus — to Europe, Lukashenka — screw you!

Long Live Belarus!

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