{"id":44433,"date":"2022-11-10T13:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T10:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/interior-ministry-bans-long-live-belarus-as-nazi-salute\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"interior-ministry-bans-long-live-belarus-as-nazi-salute","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44433\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior ministry bans \u201cLong Live Belarus!\u201d as Nazi salute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>November 10, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>The interior ministry has blacklisted the popular Belarusian chant &#8220;\u017dyvie Bie\u0142arus!&#8221; (Long Live Belarus!) and response to it &#8220;\u017dyvie!&#8221; (It Lives!) as a Nazi salute.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The ministry tied the popular greeting to Nazi collaborators who allegedly used it while raising their right arm with a straightened hand. The interior ministry did not specify whether the greeting would be considered a Nazi salute if it is not accompanied by the gesture.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The ministry said it discussed the move with the justice ministry, the Committee for State Security (KGB), and the National Academy of Sciences.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Official propaganda has portrayed opposition supporters as Nazi collaborators after 2020 protests against vote rigging and Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s disputed reelection.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t &#8220;\u017dyvie Bie\u0142arus!&#8221; originated from a 1905-07 poem by Belarus&#8217; renowned poet Janka Kupa\u0142a. It has been used by Belarusian intellectuals during pro-independence rallies since the 1980s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The greeting was often chanted by participants at official ceremonies and state-sponsored events in the early 1990s. It was the&nbsp;motto of&nbsp;the parliamentary newspaper <span>Narodnaya Gazeta <\/span>until 2020.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAfter&nbsp;the Belarusian ruler disbanded the Supreme Soviet in 1995,&nbsp;it became the favorite chant of the anti-\u0141uka\u0161enka opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 10, BPN. The interior ministry has blacklisted the popular Belarusian chant &#8220;\u017dyvie Bie\u0142arus!&#8221; (Long Live Belarus!) and response to it &#8220;\u017dyvie!&#8221; (It Lives!) as a Nazi salute. The ministry tied the popular greeting to Nazi collaborators who allegedly used it while raising their right arm with a straightened hand. The interior ministry did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-44433","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Interior ministry bans \u201cLong Live Belarus!\u201d as Nazi salute | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 10, BPN. 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