Ivonka Survilla: “No evil lasts forever!”
9- 18.03.2010, 10:53
An address of Ivonka Survilla, the head of the Rada of the Belarusian National Republic, on occasion of the BNR 92th anniversary.
Dear fellow Belarusians,
On behalf of the Rada of the Belarusian National Republic I congratulate you on the great national holiday, Freedom Day. I wish you to believe in and hope for a better future. The Belarusian people will gain freedom and democracy in the same way they have gained the independent state. We knew in the free world that no evil can last forever. We read the Third Constituent Charter of the BNR Rada that proclaimed independence of the Belarusian National Republic, we believed that if under hard conditions in 1918 our nation was able to express a wish to be free among the free nations of the world, it will find strength to stand the mockery and unfreedom of the Soviet times and revive its independent state.
Today I’d like to share an extract from the Third Constituent Charter with you which I find especially inspiring:
“Now we, the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, have cast off from our native land the last vestige of national dependence which the Russian tsars imposed by force upon our free and independent land.
From this time on, the Belarusian National Republic is proclaimed an independent and free state. By virtue of this, all former national relations lose their force relations which made it possible for a foreign government to sign the Treaty of Brest for Belarus, thus destroying the Belarusian people by partitioning their land.”
Dear fellows! Remember these words.
Only our free independent state is able to defend our land from invasive attacks on it regardless of the side they come from.
Only a democratic government is able to carry out peaceful foreign policy. Only own power is able to save from decline and destruction of the national language and culture.
From the bottom of my hear I wish you firmness, love to our beautiful land, belief in future, and courage, peculiar for all people who are free in mind.
The time will come, when our people will celebrate the Great Holiday of Independence and Freedom with honour and remember the ancestors who cast off the "last vestige of national dependence" on March 25, 1918.
Long live Belarus!
President of the BNR Rada Ivonka Survilla
