It's Not Pushkin Whom We Reject, But Putin

Russian General Reshetnikov cannot calm down.

Airplanes crash down, people die, Russia is mourning while he is pounding away on the same line as before: Belarusians, come to your senses, you are not Belarusians, you are Russians!

You'll never prove anything to people of such (General) kind, but all the same: why should we be Russians, General? To fight in Syria?

What is your business in Syria? To demonstrate, to invent that the current Russia is a global super empire? You'd better invent and construct an airplane which wouldn't fall down. And people would be alive... It was said that the crush of TU-154 was caused either by technical problems in aircraft systems, or by problems in security systems of the departure airport. They also don't exclude a pilot error. The departure airport is Russia. It's obvious that there are failures in its systems. Namely, in the main system. That is what you should improve and not Belarusians who allegedly reject, doesn't accept Pushkin.

It's not Pushkin whom we reject, but Putin. These are fundamentally different things, General. We have never accepted and will never accept blood, war in Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, Syria... But for the generals, probably, Putin is Pushkin.

By the way, Pushkin wrote about the Belarusians as "anciently native people, though remoted by scourges of war." Note: the brilliant Russian poet wrote not about "a part of the Russian people," but about the Belarusian people. And he called the causes of this "remoteness." And you say that there are no Belarusian people. So, who rejects Pushkin...?

It is enough to play with loaded dice, enough to lie shamelessly: it is not appropriate for a historian, as what you call yourself, General. First you say that "the Belarusian language is 90 years old," then you state: "I did not say that the language was created, I would say, there was a document of 1926 on the creation of..."

No, there is no and have never been such a document! But there is another document: a publication on the website of the Institute, which you (still) control. And there is written in black and white: "I was in Polatsk museum, and the guide was telling about the Belarusian people, who had led the fight for independence since the Middle Ages. And the very first exhibit in this museum was a number of the newspaper Pravda with the Decision of the organization bureau of the Communist Party of Belarus Central Committee dated back to 1926, which was called "On the creation of the Belarusian language." It’s satanism! "

Or did Pushkin write that?

Uladzimir Niakliayeu