Being a guest of Belsat’s program Two vs Two, Zianon Pazniak, the leader of the Christian Conservative Party of the Belarusian People’s Front, has made a dismal prediction about Belarus’s near future. According to the politician, the annexation of our country is on Russia’s cards.
“Russia will definitely get its hands on Belarus unless the West takes any action in the two years to come. Otherwise a war could not be avoided. Russia will make every effort to annex this salient by any means – by force of arms or as a redult of a political coup, or with the help of ‘green men’. If Putin seizes Belarus it will become his grand breakthrough. The West will fall on its knees,” he states.
It is the scenario that Russia is getting ready for, the emigre politician says.
What can Belarus put up against such tough policy? “The slogan ‘Anything rather than a war’ is curtain,” the guest added. Zianon Pazniak compared Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler: it is known that world leaders were trying hard to calm the latter down in the 30s.
“If there is no resistance the annexation of Belarus will be dressed up in the garb of ‘the Belarusian people’s will’. But if even a small number of armed fighters appears, if they start shooting and fighting for independence it will be an example to follow and a message for the international community. Even they meet with a tragic defeat, it might afford ground for independence in the future,” he said.
Zianon Pazniak, an uncompromising opponent of Lukashenka‘s regime, became one of the founders of the Belarusian People’s Front in late 80s. Historian and archeologist Pazniak discovered Kurapaty, an area in the outskirts of Minsk, in which a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 during the Stalinist Purge.The discovery and exhumation of the remains in 1988 gave an added momentum to the pro-democracy and pro-independence movement in Belarus in the last years of the Soviet Union’s existence.
After Aliaksandr Lukashenka became president of Belarus in 1994 the contrast between the two politicians only sharpened. Under apprehension of his life Mr Pazniak left Belarus in 1996; he has been living in emigration since that time.
