Battle for Belarus
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43488-2005Jan2.html
By Jackson Diehl, Page A13
Some of the most excited young people camping in Kiev's Independence
Square during Ukraine's democratic revolution were not even Ukrainian.
They were leaders of the youth group Zubr, of neighboring Belarus. In
Minsk in October, Zubr's street protests against the fraudulent
elections of a Russian-backed dictatorship were brutally crushed by
security forces, and appeared almost quixotic. Then Ukrainians showed
them that such a movement could triumph -- and that the wave of
autocracy rolling from Moscow across the former republics of the Soviet
Union could be turned back.
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