The false commemoration

The Belarusan people has seen a certain tendency in the political life and the information practice since the 1990s. This tendency has been elaborated by the KGB. The anti-Belarusan pro-Moscow pseudo-opposition used regularly this tendency. When the Belarusan Popular Front prepared some important action the pseudo-opposition tried always to confuse the people in order to ruin the plans of the patriots. For example, the Popular Front calls the people to celebrate the greatest national fest — the Freedom Day on 25 March (the anniversary of the independence of the Belarusan People’s Republic proclaimed in 1918 and then occupied by the Russian communists). At the same time some professional KGB provocateurs (Statkevich or Khadyka) start the preparation to the celebration of the Constitution day on March 15 (two weeks before the greatest Freedom Day). The provocateurs try to disorient the society and to confuse the people.

We have seen the same dirty game before the national Memory Day Dziady this year. The Conservative Christian Party – BPF has organized the march and the memorial rally on October 30 (Saturday – the most convenient day for the people in accordance with the tradition). But the KGB agents have carried on their typical pseudo-action.

The so-called “independent” mass media prepared the society to a big celebration by the “united opposition” on October 29. The people could not understand which day it was necessary to go to Kurapaty in order to commemorate the Memory Day – on October 30 or 29? The pseudo-opposition has gathered some persons in Kurapaty in order to carry on their typical ritual. They have installed on a big stone a plaque. Mr. Kuznyatsou (Kuznetsov), the chief of the group “in defense of Kurapaty” (this group has been formed by the KGB) has told on this “celebration”: “It is necessary to secure the neutrality of Kurapaty…”

In accordance with the pseudo-opposition the “neutrality” of Kurapaty signifies not to mention who had killed the Belarusan people in Kurapaty and in other places, who destroyed our culture and country. The “neutrality” would signify also that we have to reconcile with the Russian occupants and the veterans of the Russian secret police NKVD. We remember how this pseudo-opposition protested against the erection of the crosses in Kurapaty in 2001-02 by the members of the Conservative Christian party — BPF. Their activists Areshka, Zhykhar, Kuznyatsou appealed the regime in order “to stop the non-sanctioned activity in Kurapaty”. But when they could not stop the creation of the Christian National Memorial they have proclaimed that this Memorial had been created by them. Now they walk in Kurapaty with the foreign people and tell about “their crosses”. We know that they steal the grants received from abroad for the crosses.

The pseudo-opposition has gathered some journalists, foreign ambassadors and persons in Kurapaty on October 29. The “unique democratic candidate” Milinkevich has inaugurated the restored memorial plaque on the big stone. This plaque has had the following inscription: “The Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Council of Ministries of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic will erect a monument to the victims of the repressions”. The communist authorities did not execute their own promise made in 1988. These “Socialist Republic” and its Soviet bodies don’t exist just from 1991. But the pseudo-opposition did restore this empty and false plaque! When the people came to Kurapaty on October 30 they would see this “restored monument of the late communism”. But the plaque lay on the earth because it was made of the plasticine and paint as “bronze”! The foreign ambassadors and other persons have commemorated a communist plaque made of plasticine. Few hours after the “commemoration” the plasticine plaque has fallen down from the stone. It was a real act of blasphemy in Kurapaty carried on by the pro-Russian pseudo-opposition.
This initiative has been continued by the journalists. The Conservative Christian Party –BPF has got the official permission to carry on the memorial rally and march several days before October 30. But the reporter of the Radio Liberty Mr. Kulik told in his program that the action on October 30 was not permitted by the authorities “because the Conservative Christian Party didn’t pay the medical services and the police”. The persons called the Party leadership from different regions of Belarus asking: is the memorial action permitted or not permitted? One journalist-provocateur has confused thousands of persons acting together with the pseudo-opposition which prepared its pseudo-action on October 29. The Belarusan redaction of the Radio Liberty can damage its reputation using such provocative methods. Perhaps this Radio doesn’t need any reputation in the Belarusan society. In this case the Radio Liberty has to receive the money from the regime and to adopt a new title – The Radio Slavery or The Voice of the KGB.

Information commission of the Conservative Christian Party – BPF
November 5, 2005

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