Another attempt of Lukashenka’s special services to incite ethnic hatred in Lithuania
In the center of Vilnius, right on the building of EHU, unknown people left an inscription (with spelling mistakes): “Tsikhanouskaya, get out of our city.”
Earlier, someone wrote several times “Vilnius is ours” (they tried to write it in Belarusian, but wrote it in a mix of Cyrillic and Latin scripts). These attempts to show an alleged hatred of Belarusians towards Lithuanians didn’t succeed and were ignored by the society. That’s why now Lukashenka’s special services portray the alleged hatred of Lithuanians towards Belarusians. Now they at least can be used by the Belarusian propaganda.
Last week, unknown people attacked the souvenir store of former Belarusian political prisoner Zmitser Furmanau. They broke the windows, the door, and left an inscription in Lithuanian “Go back home, Belarusian swines” (again with spelling mistakes).
The news about this got into Lukashenka’s state media with the headlines “Belarusian souvenir store was attacked in Lithuania,” where neither former political prisoner Furmanau is mentioned, nor that he was forced to leave Belarus – but only that Lithuanians are allegedly tired of Belarusians and want them out of the country. This fits the propaganda’s narrative “Belarusians are hated everywhere, stay in Belarus, even if you are dissatisfied with the regime” perfectly.
In the center of Vilnius, right on the building of EHU, unknown people left an inscription (with spelling mistakes): “Tsikhanouskaya, get out of our city.”
Earlier, someone wrote several times “Vilnius is ours” (they tried to write it in Belarusian, but wrote it in a mix of Cyrillic and Latin scripts). These attempts to show an alleged hatred of Belarusians towards Lithuanians didn’t succeed and were ignored by the society. That’s why now Lukashenka’s special services portray the alleged hatred of Lithuanians towards Belarusians. Now they at least can be used by the Belarusian propaganda.
Last week, unknown people attacked the souvenir store of former Belarusian political prisoner Zmitser Furmanau. They broke the windows, the door, and left an inscription in Lithuanian “Go back home, Belarusian swines” (again with spelling mistakes).
The news about this got into Lukashenka’s state media with the headlines “Belarusian souvenir store was attacked in Lithuania,” where neither former political prisoner Furmanau is mentioned, nor that he was forced to leave Belarus – but only that Lithuanians are allegedly tired of Belarusians and want them out of the country. This fits the propaganda’s narrative “Belarusians are hated everywhere, stay in Belarus, even if you are dissatisfied with the regime” perfectly.
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