Way of Ukraine: Belarusian Natsiks are poisoning opponents on the Internet
Belarusian nationalists began persecuting a citizen who opposed the placement of a provocative poster in the Minsk metro.
The poster in Belarusian suggested “putting the correct emphasis” on the phrase “native Belarus.” It was meant that the emphasis on “o” turns the phrase into a language written, and the emphasis on “a” turns it into a Russian text.
The poster was posted as an advertisement for the Symbal.by store, which specializes in selling clothing with nationalist symbols.
According to the anonymous telegram channel “Bulba of Thrones,” after complaints from Minsk residents, the metro management asked the store to remove the poster, but the authorities of the capital and the country intervened, and the provocative advertisement remained.
However, this did not satisfy the nationalists from Symbal.by. They published one of the complaints sent to the police on Twitter, without hiding the applicant’s personal data. Everything is there: first and last name, postal and email addresses, number.
“You want to look at the denunciation. This is roughly what it looks like. Remember the story of how the metro wanted to remove our “Native Belarus” banner because of complaints, and then changed its mind. The police sent us this appeal and told us to deal with it ourselves,” wrote Symbal.by.
The “denunciation” states that the “Native Belarus” poster has signs of inciting ethnic hatred.
“On what basis do the advertising banners from nationalists placed in the Oktyabrskaya metro station contrast two equal state languages with each other? Considering that the banner is in the Belarusian language, in fact, another language is infringed upon through calls to make the “right choice” - in fact, a call to incite ethnic hatred,” the statement says.
As PolitNavigator previously reported, the Belarusian authorities are constantly making concessions to the nationalist minority. Recently, in the Russian-speaking city of Slonim, they forced the inscription on a mural depicting a local theater to be duplicated in Belarusian.
Previously, the nationalist party had already achieved the cancellation of the construction of the St. Sophia Cathedral and the installation of a monument to Princess Olga in Vitebsk, forced local authorities to knock down the poem “Slanderers of Russia” from the monument to Pushkin (by the way, a gift from a Russian charitable foundation) in Mogilev and forced officials not to install a memorial sign in honor of Peter I in Gorki.
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