A Rally To Mark The 5th Anniversary Of The Protests In Belarus Was Held In Berlin
- 9.08.2025, 18:43
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It was attended by former Charge d'Affaires of the Federal Republic of Germany in Minsk Andrea Viktorin.
On Saturday, August 9, Berlin's Potsdamer Platz hosted a rally on the fifth anniversary of the "elections" in Belarus, after which mass protests began in the country. About 15 people came out to the rally.
The rally lasted about an hour and was guarded by the capital's police, German Wave reported.
Black roses were laid to a fragment of the Berlin Wall
It is on Potsdamer Platz that there is a fragment of the Berlin Wall in white-red-white colors, which was given to the Belarusian diaspora five years ago as a symbol that one day "mur ruhnet" ("the wall will fall") in Belarus as well. The participants of the action laid there flowers painted in black.
The former German Charge d'Affaires in Belarus Andrea Wiktorin (Andrea Wiktorin) was among those who came. She left the diplomatic mission in the summer of 2025.
- The black flowers are a symbol of our sadness for what didn't come true five years ago on August 9. But it's still going on," said Zmiter, one of the organizers of the action.
He said that five years ago on this day, Berlin held a large march through the city - about 450 people took part.
The action remembered political prisoners
- We are with black flowers today, because the date is quite sad: we've been in exile for five years, we can't come to Belarus to our relatives," said Maria Rud, chairman of the board of the association of Belarusians in Germany "Razam". - There are political prisoners in Belarus, Maria Kolesnikova is in prison, in serious condition. I wish it was a festive date, but it is rather tragic.
Nevertheless, according to Maria Rud, August 9, 2020 was the day when Belarusians saw each other and how many of them were ready to support democratic change in the country.
- At that time, people in Belarus said they didn't know each other until that summer. The same thing was happening among Belarusians abroad: there was no united and structured diaspora before 2020. When in the summer of 2020 we reached the first chains of solidarity, it turned out that there were many Belarusians, that they were ready to unite for the benefit of Belarus," says Maria Rud.
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