Three Reasons To Go For Freedom Day In Minsk

The rally on March 25 will be a crucial one.

Public activist and film director Volha Mikalaichyk told Charter97.org about it.

– Thousands of stickers with the logo of the legendary movement Zubr and a lot of posters have appeared in Minsk. Do you see any changes in the society?

– I feel that people are fed up with everything and all the attempts to intimidate them will fail, that's won’t help the authorities at all. When people are discontented, no one can control this force, only the Creator. Lukashenka is God knows who, everyone is tired of him. As I wrote it on my Facebook page yesterday: "he is neither the president, nor the spirit, nor the Belarusian". This is some kind of creature that has usurped the power. Do we want Lukashenka to turn Belarus into Donbas? Lukashenka has finally gone out of his head and is not capable of analysis. It is apparent that he is following the path of Yanukovich.

– What are the three reasons, why we must go to the Square on Freedom Day?

– The first reason: I exist, I'm alive, I'm free! Therefore, I, being a free person, go out on Freedom Day. God gave us this holiday in 1918, so that we could feel ourselves free, become citizens of our own country. Our ancestors gave us the Magdeburg Law, the statute of the GDL. The first reason is the very fact of Freedom Day.

The second reason: I want my friends, comrades-in-arms, those who know me through the media to see me and take to the streets. I will not be alone there.

The third reason: I want Shunevich's squirts to see me, so that they feel the strength of the people. They have only two choices: either to retire and go to work as miners, builders and welders for the benefit of the society, or to flee to Russia and sit there quietly, like mice under a broom. I want to go out so that they leave Belarus alone.

We remind that the leaders of the Belarusian National Congress called on fellow citizens from Minsk and the regions to come to the center of the capital for Freedom Day on March 25, and on March 26 – to protests in their towns.