"You Are Our Guests"
6- 10.06.2026, 15:23
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The Belarusians gave the Russians a harsh response.
A Threads user with the username xatexsu shared a story on social media about an incident that took place in the Minsk metro, which she witnessed.
“For the first time, I saw with my own eyes the disrespect shown toward the Belarusian language by visiting Russians,” she writes. “I watched as teenagers stood in a subway car, loudly discussing and laughing at the advertising slogans and station names, saying, ‘Haha, and I thought they had a serious language’ and also mangled the pronunciation of “as’tsiarozhna, dzwery zachynyayutsya,” all while chewing gum very loudly.
On top of that, they placed their bags in the aisle so that other people couldn’t pass normally. Shame on them. And I don’t care that they’re teenagers—they were accompanied by adults who didn’t say a word to them. "Dear Russians, please stay home."
The post garnered over 600 comments. Some participants in the discussion saw nothing wrong with the teenagers’ behavior, but the vast majority condemned them. The website Charter97.org lists the most popular comments:
— When they hear Belarusians speaking their own language, that’s when this will end.
— I’m learning Polish, and I can say out of frustration: “My God, how am I supposed to pronounce this? Who came up with this!” But making fun of any language, especially in public, needs to be strictly limited. So many countries, so many languages, and they’re all interesting. If I could choose one superpower, I’d choose the ability to know and speak all languages.
— It’s pointless to explain anything to them or speak from the perspective that they don’t understand something. They understand everything perfectly well; they just think they have the right to mock and mangle a foreign language. For them, it’s normal.
— I think you need to respond to this immediately: “You’re in a foreign country; respect its way of life. You are guests here.”
— Imperialists. What can you say…
— I completely agree. I first encountered Russians’ disrespect for the Belarusian language and culture about 10 years ago at a health resort. It was Kupala Day, and the health resort’s administration had organized an event to celebrate it. I’ll never forget that level of rudeness, hypocrisy, and twisting of words. I haven’t liked Russians since then.
— People like that—grab them by the collar and send them home.
— They have neither intelligence nor a sense of humor; they laugh at everything they see and hear.
— Russians have made Belarusians hate Russians. That’s just their Russian nature.
— The Russians are offended again. You have to have quite a talent to insult other nations and then get offended that they don’t like it.
— That’s called “Great Russian chauvinism.” That’s fine; I think Ukrainian drones and missiles will cool down the representatives of the failed empire and other lovers of grandeur a bit.
— You can’t take offense at them; they’re Sharikov’s descendants.
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