{"id":528193,"date":"2026-03-25T09:41:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=528193"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:23:57","slug":"survilla-and-pazniak-address-belarusians-on-freedom-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/survilla-and-pazniak-address-belarusians-on-freedom-day","title":{"rendered":"Survilla And Pazniak Address Belarusians On Freedom Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Chair of the Rada of the Belarusian People\u2019s Republic <strong>Ivonka<\/strong><b>\u00a0Survilla<\/b> and politician <b>Zianon Pazniak<\/b> congratulated Belarusians on Freedom Day. Today marks the 108th anniversary of the proclamation of the Belarusian People\u2019s Republic.<\/p>\n<p>In her address, Survilla noted that on March 25, 1918, Belarusians declared to the world that they were casting off the last yoke of state dependence imposed on their country by Russian tsars.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIt was from Moscow that orders came to destroy the national creative and scientific elite in Kurapaty and to eliminate the hardworking peasantry. The aspirations of Belarusians for freedom and independence of their land were consistently suppressed. We had to endure both a physical and a spiritual Chernobyl. And the brief period of national revival was halted by Moscow\u2019s appointee Lukashenka,\u201d<\/i> she emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>She also noted that in 2020 the Belarusian people reminded the world of their existence, as hundreds of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets under white-red-white flags.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIf Moscow had not intervened again, we might already be living in our free country. And we would not be fighting today for the release of thousands of political prisoners who are still behind bars in Belarus,\u201d<\/i> she added.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cDo not let anyone call you aggressors against a neighboring country. We are an old European nation; our place is in democratic Europe, and only when we become independent from the so-called \u2018elder brother\u2019 will we take our rightful honorable place among the civilized nations of the world. One wants to believe that then neither Moscow nor terror will extinguish the torch that we will carry forward in tight ranks,\u201d<\/i> she stressed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_48085\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXO4ck5duzw?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=ru&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=0&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/zianon_pazniak\/1909\">video<\/a> address, Zianon Pazniak emphasized that Freedom Day represents the victory of the Belarusian national idea.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAll those uprisings of the nineteenth century, all that struggle, all those sacrifices made for independence and freedom of Belarus culminated in success on March 25, 1918. This marked the victory of the Belarusian national idea. Everything connected with the independence of Belarus, we Belarusians must celebrate throughout the world. This is very important because these holidays unite the Belarusian nation. They strengthen our solidarity regardless of which parties we belong to or how we view different issues and policies. But independence and freedom unite us all,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Russian Bolsheviks in 1918 did not allow the Belarusian People\u2019s Republic to develop, but independence cannot be destroyed. In 1991, a declaration of independence was adopted.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe Russian plague must be destroyed. This is a plague that threatens the entire world \u2014 Belarus, Ukraine, and all of Europe. Fight, brothers, fight, and victory will be ours. I congratulate us all. I congratulate us all on this great holiday and on our hopes. Because only there, in Belarus, does our bright star shine. Only there is our home, our happiness. And so we move closer to this happiness and fight for it,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chair of the Rada of the Belarusian People\u2019s Republic Ivonka\u00a0Survilla and politician Zianon Pazniak congratulated Belarusians on Freedom Day. Today marks the 108th anniversary of the proclamation of the Belarusian People\u2019s Republic. 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