Screaming Minsk, armored cars on the streets and autosaks for disagreed

On March 25, Belarusians celebrate will Day. In 1918, the independence of the Belarusian People’s Republic (BNR) was proclaimed on this day. The official language of the BNR was called the Belarusian, the coat of arms was “pursuit”, and the flag was white-red-white.

Lukashenko cannot stand this holiday.

A few years ago, answering a question about March 25, he stated that while he is the president, there will be no publication of will.

Belarusly white symbols of Belarusians are beaten, arrested, fined.

For the first time, OMON on the celebrating day of the will of Belarusians Lukashenko lowered in 1996. Then the participants in the action went to the Belteleradiocompany - they wanted to go on live. Pavel Sheremet told about this in his report. Hundreds of people were in the list of detainees then, many were brutally beaten.

In the next 25 years, the Belarusian security forces with addiction honed the skills of cruel dispersal on the day of will. And the Belarusians still went out into the streets.

A couple of times, however, the Minsk City Executive Committee nevertheless allowed these shares, only the places for the celebration chose the most ridiculous - on narrow streets, in the parks distant from the center. The exception was only 2018 - a centenary of the proclamation of the BNR. Then, after the active "marches of non -Tuneuadians", the authorities defiantly gave relief and allowed a rally and a concert. True, those who dodged the permitted route, still beat and arrested.

"Since August last year, the day of will in Belarusians - every day"

In 2021, the Belarusians waited as never before before. For hundreds of thousands of people, the holiday this year has become a symbol of the start of the reverse reference - the beginning of the second, and as the Belarusians dream, the final wave of protests against Lukashenko.

“It is clear that everyone who will go out into the street with flags or an organized column today will be called criminals, they will be chanted with batons and thrown for a day,” Belorusses in social networks wrote in the morning on March 25. - Do not deliver Lukashenko and OMON of such joy, he has already prepared his dogs. Waiting for only a convenient moment to say FAS. Let us just go out for a walk and start to squeeze the mode from this day on the streets today.

The morning began with reports of detentions and searches of activists and journalists. Immediately, the Belarusians began to tell on social networks, as on the eve of threats of dismissal they were not allowed into the Removing on March 25, and they did not even let go of the province to Minsk. In some places it reached a ridiculous one-in some universities, the dean’s staff personally removed the handle from the windows so that the students did not hang white-red and white ribbons and flags.

But they appeared on trees, windows and facades of houses, on poles, in cars passing along the main avenues of Minsk.

- Live Belarus! - says with a smile, passing by a table in a cafe, one visitor another.

“Live is eternal,” she smiles back. They recognize their own. Especially women. According to red lipstick, mask, skirt, coat, scarf and just a smile on the face - this year the Belarusians congratulated each other on the day of will, as a Happy New Year.

- Do not be afraid that in such an outfit you will quickly be cut out and notice? - I am careful carefully with one of them.

- Look at Minsk streets. What did they turn into? Supers, fences, around the Tikhars, riot police ... It’s scary for people to walk along the streets, ”the woman emotionally explains the reason for her exit to the city today. - Obviously one thing - Lukashenko is so afraid of his own people that he is ready to join him in war. All that we see on his part in the last six months is desperate attempts to fight people, their will, with the manifestation of all of ours, the national, with the language, the coat of arms, history. For a long time he will not be able to continue. He is like a wounded beast now. Belarusians will not calm down anymore. Yes, since August last year, every day is a day of will! We are fighting, hanging out flags, many are in prisons for the sake of freedom, many continue to take to the streets. We cannot give up. I sincerely believe that this is our final joint jerk against the Lukashenko regime.

Many, however, were afraid to go out on the street in Minsk on March 25. On the eve of the Belarusian Belarusians, the BYPOL initiative, uniting former security forces, said, referring to insider information: “On March 25, the Belarusian Junta is planning a terrorist attack. The unfortunate "political proletariat" is necessary for the introduction of a state of emergency in the country. "

It was reported that the explosion is planned in one of the buildings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
In the morning of March 25, many people were afraid to walk near administrative buildings and use public transport. Seeing suspicious packages or objects, they immediately reported a possible danger. For the same reason, several schools were “mined” in the morning in Belarus.

"You do not have long left!"

After lunch, Minsk began to resemble the place of military events. Special equipment entered the city, a military aircraft flew over the Minsk, reinforced police patrols began to walk around the city. The first provocateurs also appeared-people who were dressed in white and red clothing appeared to passers-by and unceremoniously glued stupid stickers on their clothes. Fortunately, Belarusians have not been conducted for such Belarusians. Calm off the clowns calmly.

By 7 o’clock in the evening, Minsk buzzed, and then yelled. The movement almost stopped on the central avenues of the capital. The cars were signaling, there are really many people on the streets of the city.

Journalists trying to capture what is happening immediately is enough riot police. Some passers -by are dragged into black “beads” for no apparent reason. Minsk residents report that military equipment is not only in the center of Minsk, but also in sleeping areas. In the most crowded areas of Minsk, traffic is blocked. Some metro stations begin by stripping. The guy in Gorky Park in the center of Minsk is standing on the edge of the parapet surrounded by people in balaclavas, preparing to jump into the river, just not to fall into their hands.

In regional cities - a similar situation. Detention, arrests, searches. The whole nightmare in which the Belarusians have been living for more than six months, it seems, after a small winter break, he returns to Belarusian streets again.

“You did not have long left,” a man shouts loudly at the soldiers in the center of Minsk.

In response, silence. One of the passers-by, just in case, takes the man aside.

In the coming days, Belarusians plan to return to the streets of the city and resume protests.