The prosecutor’s office also recognized the preface to the edition of Dinin-Marcinkevic’s works by literary critic Jazepa Januskevic as “extremist”.
“What is happening is a transition from a dictatorship to a totalitarian regime. The people are being intimidated, classics that call for national resistance are being banned,” literary scholar Ales Paškevičs told AFP.
The poems against the dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s regime tell about the 1863 Polish uprising against the Russian Empire, whose leaders included the Belarusian and Polish poet Kastus Kalinouski (Kanstancin Kalinowski).
A Belarusian unit that is currently fighting against the Russian invaders in Ukraine is also named after Kalinouska.
“Today, the Belarusian society reinterprets this period in the context of the Ukrainian war, the mass repression of Belarus and the role of Russia,” Pashkevich pointed out.
2023-08-17 19:09:54
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