{"id":540889,"date":"2026-05-09T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=540889"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:04:09","slug":"we-have-different-symbols-distribution-of-st-george-ribbons-disrupted-in-vitsyebsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/we-have-different-symbols-distribution-of-st-george-ribbons-disrupted-in-vitsyebsk","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Have Different Symbols\u201d: Distribution of St. George Ribbons Disrupted in Vitsyebsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Pro-Russian activist from Vitsyebsk <b>Elvira Mirsalimova<\/b> complained that not everyone welcomed the distribution of St. George ribbons on May 9 with enthusiasm. On her Telegram channel, she published several videos showing a man with a portrait of <b>Stalin<\/b> handing out ribbons to children, but in one of the videos things did not go as planned.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cHandsome men in uniform were gladly taking our Guards St. George ribbons,\u201d<\/i> she <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/el_mirs\/12230\">wrote<\/a>. <i>\u201cThe children would have taken the St. George ribbons too, if the \u2018educators\u2019 had not interfered.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In one of the videos, women approached the pro-Russian activists, who were insistently offering ribbons, and said that the ribbons <i>\u201cdid not match the uniform.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cNo-no-no, the ribbons do not match our uniform.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHow can that be? Didn\u2019t we fight in the same war?\u201d <\/em>the man replied indignantly.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe did fight, I\u2019m not arguing, but we have different symbols,\u201d<\/i> came the response.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI\u2019ll tell you this, guys, today some representatives of the official establishment were very aggressive and tried to prevent us from distributing St. George ribbons. I had never seen that before,\u201d<\/i> Mirsalimova <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/el_mirs\/12226\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that last year <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> twice justified the absence of St. George ribbons in Belarus \u2014 before <b>Vladimir Putin<\/b> and Russia\u2019s ambassador to Belarus <b>Boris Gryzlov<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_47652\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IvhVql3T3iU?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><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_36758\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/olpMk129lVM?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Russian activist from Vitsyebsk Elvira Mirsalimova complained that not everyone welcomed the distribution of St. George ribbons on May 9 with enthusiasm. On her Telegram channel, she published several videos showing a man with a portrait of Stalin handing out ribbons to children, but in one of the videos things did not go as planned. 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