Demand!

The decisive moment in the history of Belarus has come.

Each revolution has a turning point.

In the Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution, the violent crackdown on a massive student demonstration on November 17, 1989, sparked many-thousand (over 250,000) protests across the country, which began on November 20 and ended on December 29 with the swearing-in of President Václav Havel.

In Romania, the culmination of the revolution was more rapid. On December 16, 1989, the frightened Ceausescu gave the order to suppress the protests in Timisoara by force, and on December 25, Ceausescu himself and his wife were shot dead without trial or investigation.

Everywhere in Central Europe, later in the Balkans, people very accurately felt the turning point and the whole people rose up against the oppressors and tyrants, freed political prisoners and sought justice.

Last Sunday, in the cities of Belarus, a march of many thousands took place, demanding freedom for political prisoners.

Today Lukashenka went to the KGB pre-trial detention center to bow to those whom he accused of all mortal sins yesterday: political prisoner Viktar Babaryka and his team. He went there, of course, not with good intentions, but trying to save his criminal regime. He went there not of free will, but under the pressure of unprecedented protests of the people demanding the resignation of the usurper.

He went there to cheat everyone again in a collective farm way, and then tell a pack of lies again.

Of course, he is never to be trusted, but we must not miss the moment, which can and must become a turning point.

In all revolutionary situations, the authorities try to use force, intimidate, deceive, and recruit leaders. But, if the moment has come, no tricks can help.

If millions of Belarusians take part in the March of Pride tomorrow, if all the people of Belarus come out, victory will remain a stone's throw.

Long Live Belarus!

Andrei Sannikov, Facebook