Pavel Sevyarynets, a co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party and former political prisoner, says that the owners of the mall previously known as Bulbash Hall offer money to Kurapaty defenders.
According to the politician, they contacted one of the protesters through a mediator and offered money to end the protests.
In the open letter to restaurant owners Pavel Sevyarynets stresses that ‘not everything is bought and sold in this life’.
“Memory and dignity, crime and repentance are not measured in money. What you did in Kurapaty has angered everyone. Wrap your own restaurant and entertainment complex up and leave the territory of the national necropolis. As long as you are here, the protests will continue. A booze mill does not fit in Kurapaty,” he added.
Defenders of Kurapaty, the place of Stalin-era executions near Minsk, keep protesting against ‘dancing on the bones’, i.e. opening the restaurant Let’s Go And Eat in the vicinity of the mass grave. Activists first asked the authorities to interfere with the situation, and then decided to act independently. They are trying not to let cars to the territory of the restaurant.
Kurapaty, a place on the outskirts of Minsk, is not just the national memorial and a mass grave of the victims of Stalinist repression; since 1993, it has been is a site of historical and cultural heritage. According to historians, 100,000 – 250,000 persons might have been killed there.
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