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Lukashenka’s security officers see Hitler. The country decided to ban the slogan “Long live Belarus”

The regime of the dictator Alexander Lukashenko is seeking to recognize the slogan “Long Live Belarus” as Nazi. This is known from a Telegram message from the pro-government Belarusian Union of Journalists.

 

The country’s interior ministry has proposed equating this cry with Nazi symbols. The document was handed over “for approval” to the KGB of Belarus.

The regime’s propagandists said it was the “collaboration greeting and battle cry” used by some of the Third Reich’s accomplices during World War II “along with the Nazi party greeting” Heil Hitler. ”

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“For a complete ban on the symbols of the Nazis, policemen and punishers!” – write “courtiers” media workers of Lukashenka.

This slogan has long become one of the main symbols of the protest against Lukashenka.

As Radio Liberty writes, “Long Live Belarus” is found in the poem of the poet Yanka Kupala at the beginning of the 20th century. It was also used in the songs of the Vitebsk partisans. Until December 2020, the slogan was on the front page of the local parliamentary bulletin Narodnaya Gazeta. The agency provides a list of historical milestones when this cry was used.

In late spring 2021, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus also came up with the idea to equate the white-red-white flag – another symbol of protests against Lukashenka – with Nazi symbols.

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