Belarusian protests are turning into anti-Russian ones
At rallies in Belarus last weekend, EU flags were seen for the first time and anti-Russian slogans were heard.
Belarusian journalist Konstantin Pridybaylo said this on air on the Soloviev Live Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the journalist, this happened during an opposition rally near the government of Belarus.
“Maria Kolesnikova spoke there - one of the remaining three women who carried this opposition agenda on themselves. It was the first time I heard the wording that we are a European people, and it was the first time I saw the European flag today. I saw the flags of the European Union for the first time only today. As well as the rhetoric that Vladimir Rudolfovich [Soloviev] likes to ask on his streams: is there an anti-Russian agenda, slogans?
It seems to me that they are really starting to appear a little, because Kolesnikova noted in her speech that, mind you, there are 200 thousand of us here, supposedly gathered, and these 200 thousand have cleaned up the garbage after themselves. Like we are not a dirty people, we are Belarusians, we have clean cities, even clean forests, and now, we are a clean, European people. Well, it sounds like we are practically a pure Aryan nation, but it is what it is,” Pridybaylo said.
According to the ex-press secretary of the Odessa diocese, Andrei Novikov, the slogans of the Belarusian opposition are in fact directed against Russia, and the support of local Maidan activists is comparable to collaboration.
“People carrying white-red-white flags and wrapping themselves in them declare approximately the following: “We want to join a military-political coalition of states against Russia and, if possible, destroy it. Our goal within the country is the elimination of all pro-Russian forces, including physical ones. The sooner Belarus becomes a NATO springboard for the war against Russia, the better.”
Accordingly, rejection or support of these rallies is a litmus test. The demand to respect this “choice of the people” is approximately the same as the demand to respect the mass support of the German population for the declaration of war on Russia in 1914 and in 1941 as an expression of the “democratic choice of the German people,” Novikov wrote in his blog.
Russian political scientist Vladimir Kornilov notes that statements that opposition rallies are not directed against Russia sound only to the inner man in the street - the foreign press writes something completely different.
“The Russian audience is assured that the protests in Belarus are not about a choice between Russia and the West. Meanwhile, in interviews with Polish media, Belarusian oppositionists directly say that they are fighting against “the threat from Lukashenko, the Kremlin and Lubyanka”, for the “final return of Belarus to Europe.” In the West, these activists are more honest,” Kornilov writes on his blog.
He refers to the comment of the founder of the Razam solidarity movement, Vyacheslav Siuchik, to Polish Radio: “Belarusians must return to Europe. Naturally, this will happen as soon as Belarusians have the opportunity to choose power. Unfortunately, Belarusians were deprived of this right for 24 years. Alexander Lukashenko is to blame for this. He and his partners for 26 years – the Kremlin and Lubyanka – are to blame for what is happening in Belarus.”
Ukrainian political scientist Alexander Semchenko also writes in his blog that the protests in Belarus are acquiring an anti-Russian character: “In Minsk they pasted over the pedestal of the Lenin monument with all sorts of bullshit. Let me remind you that in Ukraine they also did not immediately begin to demolish Lenin’s.”
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