A generationIn one of the most important trials in which the regime of Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko intends to intimidate its opponents, the verdict has been delivered: Marija Kolesnikova and Maxim Snak, the two main members of the Lukashenko Opponents Coordination Committee, Convicted Monday in the capital Minsk: Kolesnikowa was held in a prison camp for 11 years, Snak was held for 10 years under aggravated conditions.
We can only roughly understand what happened during this process that started a month ago. In addition to Kolesnikowa, Maxim Snak was also accused. Both of them were accused of appealing against national security, seizing power with an unconstitutional conspiracy, and establishing and operating an extremist organization. But the public is excluded, and all those involved must keep it secret: now only the announcement of the verdict is public.
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Before announcing the verdict, a lawyer for Snakes said that the indictment reminded him of a Hollywood script because it was ultimately “based on real events.” Because the regime had to properly distort the events of those days last summer to make them suitable for its trial. Kolesnikova, 39, and Snack, who just turned 40, work for Victor Barbariko, the presidential candidate blocked by the regime, who is most likely to defeat Lukashenko in a real election.
Barbarico was arrested in June 2020 and sentenced to 14 years in prison for another incident in July last year. He and his colleagues are interested in peaceful change, and they refuse violence; Maria Kolesnikova opposed punitive measures in Minsk when the fraudulent post-election protests peaked. “As a person calling for compromise and dialogue, I oppose sanctions,” she told FAZ at the time
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The trial of Kolesnikova and Snack, who were arrested after being kidnapped in September 2020, was conducted in secret. This fact illustrates the danger they pose to the regime: the accused should not have a stage, they are in the trial His last sentence also had to be closed; Snak was said to have discussed the legal aspects of the process in about three hours, and Kolesnikova was more emotional when it came to working with Babariko’s team.
Lukashenko’s regime must figure out what will happen when Maria Kolesnikova (Maria Kolesnikova) particularly takes the stage: she excites us, inspires us, and takes us away. She is the last of the three women next to the candidate Svetlana Tichanovskaya. She visited Belarus in the summer of 2020 and took away tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands. People who are still in the country-this is only because, as a regime, she has followed Ukraine and Germany to expedite, and tore her passport at the border.
Recently, due to this humiliation of Lukashenko, Kolesnikova has become a spokesperson for the Belarusian revolution, and even an icon: her most influential portrait comes from the Belarusian artist Anna Redko (Anna Redko) According to the propaganda poster “The Motherland is Calling!” The German conqueror called the weapon.
You can see Kolesnikova wearing a red robe, her short hair and red lipstick, instead of the prototype weapon, the white rose. When this was still possible, the image was projected onto the outer wall of the house in Minsk. It is remembered like a women’s parade. The regime uses everything it has to counter these images. It’s not just security and justice; long-term persecuted human rights activists from Wjasna count that as of Monday morning, 656 people have been politically persecuted.
The regime portrays opponents as “fascists”
The regime portrayed its opponents as the returnees of the “fascists”, the conquerors of Nazi Germany. As a partner in the West, he wanted to enter Russia through Belarus-and after Lukashenko denied his meager election campaign with Russian threats to Belarus and portrayed Barbariko as an agent of influence in Russia.
The regime persecuted its opponents so mercilessly that even the lawyers who defended these opponents had their licenses revoked. According to everything learned from the secret trial, the defendants were not discouraged. According to the lawyers, they were still lively, confident and happy. At the beginning of the trial a month ago, just before the public had to leave the room, Kolesnikova danced in the defendant’s cage in a black dress.
It was not until the end of August that her father, Alexandr Kolesnikow (Alexandr Kolesnikow) was able to see his daughter nearly a year later because he was present at the trial. For confidentiality reasons, he was not allowed to reveal what it was when he was threatened with punishment, but he said that he saw his daughter’s smile and she was still radiant and kind-hearted.
