Seviarynets: Latushka is the best alternative for the post of Prime Minister of free Belarus
The ex-political prisoner wrote on his Facebook page about his acquaintance with the ex-Minister of Culture, ex-director of the Kupala Theatre, and currently Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's deputy. "Latushka was Belarusian from the very beginning, not Lukashenka's," he writes.
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"In the early 2000s, at one of the diplomatic receptions in Minsk, I, then still the chairman of the Young Front, approached Pavel Latushka. I knew that he was perhaps the only notable civil servant who consistently spoke Belarusian. I thanked him for his Belarusianness and asked if he hoped to change Lukashenka's system from within.
Latushka replied that we all dream of the same independent, democratic, and Belarusian Belarus, and he was trying to pursue that path.
"Pash, how can you support a former Lukashenka official?" people sometimes ask me now.
But Latushka was Belarusian from the very beginning, not Lukashenka's.
Like the national-communists of the 1920s, Latushka did everything he could for Belarus from within the system — he worthily represented Belarus in countries around the world and international organizations in Belarusian, he pushed through the ambitious "Castles of Belarus" program, and saved Belarusian culture from Soviet influence and Moscow.
Kupala Theatre in August 2020
In 2020, it was Pavel Latushka who raised the flag for the unity of all officials disagreeing with Lukashenka — and this flag, of course, was white-red-white. He went through threats, assassination attempts, provocations – and continues to unite Belarusian proto-state structures as a great team player.
Team is a key concept for Latushka, and for Belarusians, this is a valuable rarity.
Over several years, Latushka has assembled a team of specialists capable of replacing the core of Belarus's state apparatus when a "window of opportunity" opens.
And I think, for now, there is no better alternative for the post of the first Prime Minister of a free, democratic, and independent Belarus," Pavel Seviarynets wrote.
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