Thread by @ThomasVLinge

#Belarus: up to 45.000(!) people gathered in the capital #Minsk to support Svietlana #Tsikhanouskaya for president.

#Lukashenko can pull every trick he wants, his popularity seems to be done anyways

#Belarus: Belarusian independence flags as far as the eye can see. After decades of oppression Belarusians are rising up against the #Lukashenko regime

The massive pro-#Tsikhanouskaya in #Minsk as seen from the air.

Opposition rallies as large as this one are unheard of in #Belarus

Thousands of lights fill the park of the #Minsk gahtering as the Belarusians version of the anti-communist Polish song Mury plays in the background.

#Belarus is waking up

The song стены рухнут (walls will crumble) has become the anthem of the #Tsikhanouskaya campaign. It is a Belarusian version of the Polish anti-communism song Mury.

It was performed tonight at the massive opposition rally in #Minsk, #Belarus.

"And the walls will crumble, crumble, crumble! Decay for everlong"

#Minsk tonight. We can say without exaggeration the pro-democracy revolution of #Belarus is a fact

"And the walls will crumble, crumble, crumble! Decay for everlong"

#Minsk tonight. We can say without exaggeration the pro-democracy revolution of #Belarus is a fact

#Belarus: the capital #Minsk last night.

*I'm honestly speechless*

#Belarus: #Tsikhanouskaya rally in Smarhon today. Another small town with a large turnout

#Belarus: big turnout at the #Tsikhanouskaya rally in #Molodechno today

#Belarus: another packed event in support of #Tsikhanouskaya, this one in Lida

#Belarus: today #Tsikhanouskaya made a stop in the western city of #Grodno (#Hrodna), an estimated 10.000 people were there to welcome her

#Belarus: crowd of around 1000 supporters gathered in the town of Volkovysk (Vawkavysk) to meet #Tsikhanouskaya

#Belarus: opposition rally in Volkovysk (Vawkavysk) today

#Belarus: hundreds at the #Tsikhanouskaya rally in the town of Slonim

#Belarus: a sea of people waiting to welcome #Tsikhanouskaya in thw western city of #Brest

Today is Airborne Forces Day in #Belarus and in #Brest paratroopers have come to the opposition rally to show their support to #Tsikhanouskaya

#Belarus: the city of #Brest today. People everywhere you look

#Lukashenko used to say a woman could never be president of #Belarus.

#Tsikhanouskaya is determined to prove him wrong, and her campaign is empowering women and girls across the country

#Belarus: the massive #Tsikhanouskaya rally as seen from above. According to human rights groups around 18.000 people were present

#Belarus: the faces of young Belarusians hoping for change.

In their entire lives they have known no other president than #Lukashenko. As the rest of #Europe entered one of its most free and prosperous periods ever their country remained in the dark, 'Europe's last dictatorship'