Monument To Heroes Of Belarusian Revolution To Be Created In Warsaw

This way the authorities of the Polish capital want to support the Belarusians, fighting for their freedom.

A monument to the heroes of the Belarusian revolution will be erected in the Warsaw district of Wola, reports Gazeta Wyborcza. It will be placed in Szymanski Park, the largest park in the district of the Polish capital.

The installation, called "Rising Sun Avenue," is the work of a well-known Polish sculptor, Paweł Althamer. The installation will consist of seven aluminium figures representing democratic activists imprisoned by the regime of Aliaksandr Lukashenka.

We are talking about journalist and Polish activist Andrzej Poczobut, head of the Union of Poles in Belarus Anzhalika Borys, representative of the electoral headquarters of Viktar Babaryka Maryja Kalesnikava, Belarusian blogger Siarhei Tsikhanouski, who was imprisoned just three months before the election.

According to the sculptor, the gold-painted figures of Belarusian heroes will walk with their heads held high, as if they had just been released from captivity. "It is meant to remind us of the imprisoned activists and at the same time to show that they have friends in Poland and that we suffer together with the Belarusians," says the sculptor.

"This way we want to support the Belarusians symbolically at the most difficult stage of the fight for freedom. Now Belarus is in the same place as Poland after the declaration of martial law," says Krzysztof Strzałkowski, the mayor of Wola.

"I really like this idea," says Warsaw President Rafal Trzaskowski about the monument.