Lukashenko miscalculated: the Belarusian opposition began to flirt with Russia
The anti-Russian frenzy of the Belarusian opposition's actions against integration with Russia seems to have frightened even their organizers.
On the eve of new events on December 20 and 21, the leaders of nationalist organizations appealed to their supporters to refrain from radicalism.
Co-chairman of the public organization “Belarusian Christian Democracy” Vitaly Rymashevsky asked protest participants not to make posters offensive to Russian citizens.
“This will be an action for peace between the peoples of Russia and Belarus. We call on Russians who do not share Putin’s imperial policy to fight together for the freedom and independence of Belarus and Russia,” Radio Liberty quotes Rymashevsky.
Previously, the opposition allowed the use of official state red and green symbols in addition to the red and white nationalist symbols at their events.
In addition, anti-integration fighters published an appeal to the Russian people. True, the vocabulary of the document indicates that the addressee is the same small and marginal Russian opposition.
Right off the bat, the authors of the message report that integration was required by “authoritarian rulers” in order to “satisfy their irresponsible ambitions.”
Integration itself, in their opinion, poses a threat to good neighborly relations and peace, and promises Russia only “isolation” and “loss of prosperity.” “Aggression against Georgia and Ukraine” is mentioned.
“Citizens of Russia, like Belarusian citizens, are under an authoritarian government that suppresses their rights and freedoms. Therefore, we welcome fighters for freedom and democracy in Russia, all Russian citizens who do not share Putin’s imperial ideas,” the message says.
Russians are urged to join statements about the illegitimacy of the Union State Treaty and not to recognize any integration agreements and “secret protocols of Putin and Lukashenko.”
With this traditional set of slogans, the opposition is going to rally for two days in a row and hopes to gather more people than the first time (600-700 people).
At the same time, the opposition press reports that on December 20, 6 hours before their action, left-wing and pro-Russian organizations are gathering on the same Oktyabrskaya Square. They, however, unlike the zmagari, have submitted an application to hold a rally and are waiting for permission from the authorities.
It was not possible to find confirmation of this information on the websites of supporters of the Union of Russia and Belarus.
But on the website of the Belarusian communists for more than a week there has been a call to create the Federation of Rus - a state that, in addition to Russia and Belarus, should unite the LDPR and Ukraine.
Let us recall that earlier Lukashenko actually gave up the street to the irreconcilable Russophobic opposition, offended by Moscow’s intransigence on economic issues.
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