Pazniak on Babaryka and Kalesnikava: No prison will transform such people

Zianon Pazniak. Photo: Nasha Niva

“At the conference, impressed Ukrainians saw up close the faces of Russkiy Mir proxies (Babaryka, Kalesnikava). The proxies did not support Ukraine, did not condemn Russian aggression against Ukraine, did not support Belarusian volunteers, the struggle, and sacrifices of the Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment. On the contrary, regret was expressed for the victims among the Russian occupiers in their aggressive war against Ukraine,” Pazniak states.

He reiterates the usual theses that the opposition to Lukashenka in 2020 was created by Moscow with the aim of “using the elections and anti-regime sentiments among the people, to replace Lukashenka with the Gazprom creature, banker Babaryka, and legitimize power in Belarus for the subsequent annexation of the country into Russia and the creation of favorable conditions for the occupation of Ukraine.”

Afterwards, however, this opposition, along with Belarusian patriots, ended up in the same prison.

“And so, thanks to America and our collective Belarusian efforts, the Russkiy Mir adherents are free. They spoke out, as before, demonstrating their political nothingness. The propaganda bubbles created around these engaged empty characters are truly 'unbelievable'," says Pazniak, also mentioning the "German trace in this insidious history," which "will reveal itself later.”

And then he moves on to general conclusions.

“From the experience of our 200-year Belarusian struggle, the following emerges: A Muscovite, and even more so those who have sold themselves and serve the Muscovite, do not change under any circumstances. They remain enemies of the nation forever, despite possible future adaptation and change of rhetoric. These, who spoke at the conference, do not even change their rhetoric and repeat with a cynical smirk their learned Russian service.

No prison, no prison mockery of the Belarusian person, of their language and dignity, no solitary confinement cells and abuse will transform such people, will not change their consciousness, will not return them to the language, to Belarusian identity, will not evoke a sense of national conscience, because not even the slightest trace of it remains within them.

They are not interested in the sacrifices and struggle of Belarusian volunteers against the Russian invaders. No Russian fascism, no Rashism, no Bucha, no murder of the Ukrainian people by Moscow aggressors and murderers will evoke genuine sympathy in such people, will not prompt questions, will not frighten them, and will not derail them from the falsehood and demagoguery of the Russian narrative. Ahead for them is a change of rhetoric and yet another series of failing bubbles in the agents' theatre. But it will not succeed,” Pazniak prophesies.

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