Quo vadis

There is space for action on various fronts, with different methods.

A weird situation has occurred in our society. I would like to share some of my observations over the moral and psychological state of Belarusian nos now. Where are we going to, at the end of the day?

In the morning we share some news piece about political prisoners in the social media, or repost a new pic by Uladzimir Tsesler, at lunch time we speak with a shrink, and at night we go to watch some 10th movie, or documentary, or exhibition with the plot being approximately as follows: riot police/GUBAZIK/other degenerates beat/cripple Belarusians. And round and round and round it goes. The authors of these works or films, consciously or not, present punishers as winners, and plant this idea into our brains. Even in Hollywood movies, where the protagonist may die, directors leave the viewer hope for the better. So let’s not waste money on shrinks, since the reasons why we are having a problem are obvious.

By our actions, we have turned political prisoners into statistics. If we really want to help them, the first thing to do is to stop whining. How much longer can it take? 40 days have long passed.

We found ourselves in a situations when the hostages like Palina Sharenda-Panasyuk or Sasha Ivulin have much more optimism than us. They, from behind bars, are supporting those who are free! Even the mother of murdered Raman Bandarenka hasn’t lost hope, but we, in Warsaw, Vilnius or Kyiv - we lost it.

Tsesler has in general become a free marketologist and advertiser of the Lukashenka bandits with all those endless blue buses and swamp green paddy wagons…

My friends, who went through detentions and tortures and finally managed to escape, told that they were scared of such minibuses even abroad for a long time. And the designer mentioned above is constantly reminding that we need to be scared further on. And all this remains in our heads. Even Azaronak is incapable of making such sort of advertising. This irritates.

Like, Mikita Melkaziorau first says he is ready to kill for a cup of coffee in Minsk (do not kill anyone), but then adds in several minutes that he might stay in Warsaw forever. This is not an oxymoron, but schizophrenia.

Recently, there appeared another “political scientist” and “prognoses maker” Knyrovich. He jumped out of nowhere like a bat out of hell, and broadcasts some bullshit about dictatorship for 50 more years for a broad audience. If you really think so, then cherish this idea in your head, and stop driving the already beaten and psychologically traumatized Belarusians into the pit of hopelessness. I can’t even imagine the face of a political prisoner who would receive Knyrovich’s letter with such a “prognosis”. I think even in Auschwitz people had more hope than today’s thinkers.

Probably, we are following the wrong leaders and heroes. We listen to dubious thinkers, read only headlines, make the same reposts, and commit the same mistakes.

Instead, let’s recall the works of our outstanding artists, listen to the Pesniary band, read the Belarusian romantic writers: Kupala, Bahdanovich, Karatkevich… Maybe they can cure us.

Bahdanovich writes “Unbreakable, unstoppable, unrestrainable!” It’s the criminals and villains that should cry, it’s them who have in their conscience taken lives and broken destinies of thousands of Belarusians. If they don’t cry or repent, we must make them cry and lose sleep due to thinking about the tribunal. It’s like a war. The party that manages to demoralize the rival and force upon him its own will wins. So far, it’s the other way round here. We must proceed from the fact that dictators are not everlasting, but people are. Even biological victory is with us.

Ukrainians are not afraid of the Russians due to some reason, although the latter drove their troops close to the borders of Ukraine. They are not afraid, because they are motivated, it’s their land. The occupants find it harder in such a situation, since it’s kinda difficult to raise the battle spirit with that slogan of theirs, “For Putin and all that shit!”.

Surely, this is an appeal to neophytes, who started getting engaged in Belarusianity in 2020. Unfortunately, whoever we take from their ranks, they will have no even basic knowledge of their own culture and history. However, they believe they are the cleverest and take on duties (but not responsibilities) to shout and drive people to a pseudo-referendum, where they will have to play some battle ships game under the close observation of cops and even without a curtain. I remember there once was a cheap wine in Belarus called Kryzaczok. I have an impression that someone has had too much of this cheapo surrogate, and then had a brilliant idea with crosses, and made some spice prognoses, being in a state of an alcohol coma.

So let us hide those tragic exhibitions, movies, memes in a drawer, and then we will give them all to the Museum of Victory. Let’s get together, improve endurance, share adequate ideas, hold brainstorming, listen to real leaders, and keep contacts with those who stayed in the country. There is space for action on various fronts, with different methods.

Long Live Belarus!

Valer Prychynets, Facebook