Fifty-nine percent say protest movement undefeated

December 17, BPN. Some 59 percent of respondents say the protest movement that emerged in Belarus in 2020 hasn’t been defeated, a poll by the Center for New Ideas has revealed.

The survey focused on the protest-minded section of Belarusian society, the think tank said in a report published on December 16. It polled over 2,300 people in Belarus and over 300 people abroad.

Twenty percent of those polled strongly disagreed, and 38.7 percent tended to disagree, with the statement that the movement was crushed. Conversely, 31.7 of respondents tended to share this belief, and 6.1 percent supported it strongly. Only 3.4 percent didn’t have an answer.

“After several years of repression, when every manifestation of freedom was ‘rolled into the asphalt,’ those who supported the protests still do not view their protest experience as a defeat,” the center concluded.