In Ukraine, Belarusians were urged to forget about the “well-fed trough” and good roads for the sake of the Maidan
Belarusians, like Ukrainians, should not think about the quality of life for the sake of “European values.”
Ukrainian propagandist, former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Sergei Vysotsky stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Vysotsky considered the “call of the nation” an attempt to carry out a coup d’etat in Belarus under nationalist flags.
“Belarusians, under this flag, are Belarusians who are now making great sacrifices for the sake of such symbolic and abstract issues, phenomena such as freedom, dignity, the right to vote. Belarusians who shed their blood and see the national banner as a symbol of struggle, I think that Belarusians feel something that we felt then on the Maidan.
In fact, this call of the nation, consciousness, self-awareness as a Belarusian, Ukrainian, it grows only during such events, during the struggle for one’s own rights, for some symbols that are sometimes larger than life. During the struggle for such very strange and idealistic concepts as honor, freedom, equality, equality, the right to vote, it is in such moments of the highest ascension of human life that a nation is born.
I am convinced that the Belarusian nation is not just born, but it is being reborn, because it was Alexander Lukashenko who threw Belarus into this space of “soviet society”, backwardness, into this space of unfreedom...
Freedom and the right to choose are more important than smooth roads. Without freedom there will never be smooth roads, good asphalt, or a successful state... We need a successful, modern, democratic Ukraine, and we need a successful, modern, democratic Belarus. Because there is no Lukashenko with his flirting with the Kremlin, with his indulgence of Putin, because a large amount of his social reserve depends on Putin, the economy depends, the payment of wages in Belarus at state enterprises depends.
It will never be a better guarantee against a Russian attack through the territory of our northern neighbor than a modern democratic, rule-of-law state in the north. The Belarusian uprising and its success are also the success of Ukraine. Because it is in our strategic, national interests to reduce the space of the “scoop”, fight it and increase the space of freedom and those modern values, the values of the civilized world, to which we all strive. Let’s not forget that values, these values, such as dignity and freedom, are more important than a well-fed trough,” Vysotsky said.
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