Residents of Belarus urged to raise Russian flags
Critical of Alexander Lukashenko, but pro-Russian citizens of Belarus must realize the inadmissibility of using white-red-white symbols, historically related to Nazi collaborators.
Southern Russian political emigrant journalist Alexander Chalenko said this during a debate in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Russian people are now fighting on the side that is against Lukashenko. Because Lukashenko does not allow civil society, which is, in fact, Russian, to develop either politically or economically. That's why we are with our Russian brothers in Belarus.
Talking with Russian brothers in Belarus, I ask: “Why are you marching under white-red-white flags?” Yes, I understand, protest flag and so on. But it’s time to come out with Russian banners,” Chalenko noted.
He recalled that symbols had already appeared on social networks earlier, which were developed specifically for pro-Russian citizens of Belarus.
Chalenko believes that the issue of the Russian flag of Belarus is very important, just as it was important at the beginning of the Russian Spring, when the defenders of Donbass fought with the Ukrainian Armed Forces under the flag of Novorossiya.
“Vasiliev (ex-deputy of the Odessa City Council - ed.) and I invented the flag of Novorossiya, and everyone laughed at us in December 2013. They even wanted to hand us over to the SBU, but they said that “we are some kind of Tolkienists - we run around with flags, with St. Andrew’s crosses.” Six months after these ridicule, the Ukrainian army was beaten under these flags in Donbass. What is at first perceived as something frivolous, then becomes mainstream. And the question of the Russian flag of Belarus is very important,” Chalenko concluded.
Let us recall that earlier a group of Russian-Belarusian patriotic intellectuals led by a specialist in the Russian-Belarusian-Ukrainian border - Oryol culturologist Sergei Kiselyov - proposed a new one - "Russian flag of Belarus".
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