Day of Solidarity with Belarus at Belarusian-Polish border
This month the Day of Solidarity with Belarus was celebrated at the frontier point “Kuznitsa Belastokskaya” at the Belarusian-Polish border. The “Union for democracy in Belarus” and students of K.Kalinouski programme came there to conduct an action for Belarusians returning home.
Travellers were given information leaflets about events that took place in Minsk on March 25. Documentaries “Lesson of Belarusian” by Mirek Dembіnski and “Square” by Yury Hashchavayski were also given out.
But people’s attention was mostly drawn to the photo exhibition showing street actions starting from 1996. It was surrounded by white-red-white flags and there one could listen to music forbidden in our country.
The reaction of Belarusians was rather unexpected: they were looking at everything eagerly and some of them did not even hide their gladness, but others just shrugged their shoulders and said “What can you do, our life is like that!”.
But everyone admitted it was necessary to conduct such actions. They took information leaflets. Sometimes people got out of their cars and shouted “Long live Belarus!” after having read the leaflets.
People also approached the exposition to take pictures and to hold the white-red-white flag – just to hold it.
But there was another type of reaction too: people asked who paid for the organization of the action and who needed democracy (for example, there is democracy in Poland but roads are still bad).
Such questions were asked mainly by young people.
But the answer could be like that – when the organizers tried to get permission for the action the head of the frontier troops said: “It’s not Belarus to get permission for everything. Do it if you like”.
The organizers noted that the action was very successful because it was aimed at Belarusians and it carried out its most necessary function – informing in the time of total informational isolation of Belarus.
A Yury Hashchavitski film “Square”, political video clips and cartoons were shown when it grew dark.
Many people travelling to Belarus from Poland asked to record information materials on their own media because all disks had already been given out.
An action of flash mob took place in Warsaw on the Day of Solidarity with Belarus.
A game where the presenter had to push out people with white-red-white flags from the circle was organized there.
Yanka Bahushevich from the frontier point “Kuznitsa Belastotskaya”.
Travellers were given information leaflets about events that took place in Minsk on March 25. Documentaries “Lesson of Belarusian” by Mirek Dembіnski and “Square” by Yury Hashchavayski were also given out.
But people’s attention was mostly drawn to the photo exhibition showing street actions starting from 1996. It was surrounded by white-red-white flags and there one could listen to music forbidden in our country.
The reaction of Belarusians was rather unexpected: they were looking at everything eagerly and some of them did not even hide their gladness, but others just shrugged their shoulders and said “What can you do, our life is like that!”.
But everyone admitted it was necessary to conduct such actions. They took information leaflets. Sometimes people got out of their cars and shouted “Long live Belarus!” after having read the leaflets.
People also approached the exposition to take pictures and to hold the white-red-white flag – just to hold it.
But there was another type of reaction too: people asked who paid for the organization of the action and who needed democracy (for example, there is democracy in Poland but roads are still bad).
Such questions were asked mainly by young people.
But the answer could be like that – when the organizers tried to get permission for the action the head of the frontier troops said: “It’s not Belarus to get permission for everything. Do it if you like”.
The organizers noted that the action was very successful because it was aimed at Belarusians and it carried out its most necessary function – informing in the time of total informational isolation of Belarus.
A Yury Hashchavitski film “Square”, political video clips and cartoons were shown when it grew dark.
Many people travelling to Belarus from Poland asked to record information materials on their own media because all disks had already been given out.
An action of flash mob took place in Warsaw on the Day of Solidarity with Belarus.
A game where the presenter had to push out people with white-red-white flags from the circle was organized there.
Yanka Bahushevich from the frontier point “Kuznitsa Belastotskaya”.
