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Dashkevich: Millions Of Belarusians For Return Of White-Red-White Flag

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Dashkevich: Millions Of Belarusians For Return Of White-Red-White Flag
Zmitser Dashkevich
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A campaign of collection of signatures for granting the white-red-white flag the status of non-material historical and cultural value is about to start.

“We can see that the interest of the Belarusian society to its history, real national symbols – the white-red-white flag and the coat of arms “Pahonya” (“Chase”), – has been increasing recently. The actions of “Young Front” which we held during the summer (on May 14, on the anniversary of the sadly famous “referendum” of 1995, on July 27 and August 25, on the anniversary of the declaration of independence) have demonstrated that thousands of Belarusians support the return of our symbols: passers-by were expressing their support, cars were honking in solidarity, the actions have had a very positive response in the media, hundreds of white-red-white ribbons were distributed during each of them. This is not surprising, because according to various sociological studies, for millions of Belarusians the symbol of our country is a white-red-white flag,” – the leader of “Young Front” Zmitser Dashevich said to Belaruski Partyzan.

The activist has decided to announce a solo campaign of collection of signatures for granting the white-red-white flag the status of non-material historical and cultural value, because “it will change nothing if the initiative is voiced by the organizations – signatures are collected by the very few anyway”.

“It will be interesting to see how the political structures, which convinced us that we should go to false “elections”, as there is no other way for them to communicate with the public, will act. Here, it’s a very good opportunity, which is now opposed by no one – collect signatures for the flag, expand your ideas in the society, communicate with people. And there’s no need to take part in the fraud or to convince anybody in your political views, because there are more people supporting the white-red-white flag than all the Belarusian opposition put together,” – the activist is sure.

“I have experience in collecting signatures during the parliamentary election campaign (although I didn’t registered for the “elections”, but I have collected a thousand of signatures in support of myself during one month without giving up a job), and during the campaign of Young Front of collection of signatures for Belarusian language (I collected about four thousand signatures within two months in 2010), so I am now convinced that I will gather a thousand of signatures for the white-red-white flag, spending on this only a few hours after the work. Yesterday (during the action “National Flag Avenue” – note) I have already collected the first signatures at the exit of the metro station Kupalauskaya-Kalinouskaha. By the way, the very first signature was of the actor and director Pavel Harlanchuk,” – Zmitser Dashkevich said.

He encourages everyone, who is ready to sacrifice at least a bit of their time for the return of the white-red-white flag, to join the campaign of collection of signatures.

“Approximately in a month we will take the signatures to the Ministry of Culture, and will let them decide what to do with the demands of many thousands of people: to grant the white-red-white flag the status of historical and cultural value!” – Zmitser Dashkevich summed up.

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