The fugitive zmagar laid claim to Smolensk, but kept silent about Brest
If Russia considers Crimea its own, since it was part of the RSFSR, then it needs to return part of the Smolensk and Bryansk regions to Belarus, since Soviet Belarus was created by the Bolsheviks in Smolensk, which was its first capital.
Such "killer" arguments were put forward on air by Institute of the Future expert and fugitive Belarusian opposition figure Ihar Tyshkevich on Ukrlife.TV, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Let's remember how the Soviet national republics were created. Each such republic was created according to approximately the same algorithm - the Bolsheviks occupy some more or less large foreign city, and there a so-called provisional government of a particular nation is created from among the local communists.
This happened in Bialystok and Poland in 1919, after which, by the way, they got slapped on the horns. This was the case in Kharkov with Ukraine, and this was the case in Dvinsk with Latvia. And so it was with Lithuania. In 1939 in Terijoki with Finland, where, by the way, they also received a slap on the horns.
It was similar with Belarus. In 1919, the Bolsheviks controlled the city of Smolensk, which they perceived as a native Belarusian city and, accordingly, it was logical for them to gather communists, Belarusians by origin, in this city to announce the creation of the Belarusian Socialist Soviet Republic.
This is how the Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus arose with its capital in Smolensk.
Accordingly, the city of Smolensk was the capital of Soviet Belarus right before the capital moved to the city of Vilnius.
And here we get a funny casus: if we are talking about ancestral lands, if citizens of the Russian Federation, lovers of bonds, consider Crimea to be theirs, since it was part of the RSFSR, then we still need to recognize the borders established by the Bolsheviks.
And in this case, Belarusians have the right to talk about their ancestral lands.
Moreover, Belarusians do not need something foreign - the Smolensk outskirts, Velikiye Luki, a piece of the Bryansk region. Well, that's probably enough.
Considering how much the infrastructure has been destroyed there, there’s no point in daring to do more,” Zmagar is playing the fool, not saying that, according to his logic, it’s high time to return to Poland the western lands of modern Belarus, annexed by Stalin to the USSR in 1939.
A fugitive soldier laid claim to Smolensk, but kept silent about Brest.