“Putin is pouring!” – the police chased students around Minsk
Some Belarusian students today responded to the call of the Polish network of telegram channels and went out on a “march of solidarity.”
Initially, it was planned to unite with the workers of the “striking enterprises,” but the strike seems to exist only in the virtual opposition space, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The students were also not allowed to approach the Ministry of Education, where they were planning to take their petitions.
As a result, the action turned into a spontaneous march of different columns around the city, which sometimes accidentally united.
As correspondents of the American Radio Liberty found out, the columns included not only students, but also simply opposition-minded citizens.
The participants admitted that not everyone in universities supports revolutionary sentiments.
In some universities, management tried to prevent students from participating in the unauthorized event. In some places, riot police tried to force students into pairs, and arrests were made. But the most ideological truants still escaped.
The march turned out to be dynamic, because from time to time the students came across police cordons and simply ran around them. There were also several arrests.
It is worth noting that not a single national flag was seen at the march, only nationalist red and white ones. The students shouted the nationalist chant “Live Belarus.”
The rest were dominated by anti-Lukashenko. From the new one - “Sasha, you are expelled.” Anti-Russian notes also appeared. Students shouted “Sasha, drink tea, Putin is pouring it,” and one girl said she was protesting against being vaccinated with the Russian coronavirus vaccine.
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