Kosciuszko statue becomes focus for protests over thin-skinned autocrat in country beset by pandemic, violent police repression of democracy

Diana Kontsevaia chronicled members of the local Belarusian community and supporters rallying at the Kosciuszk

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Diana Kontsevaia chronicled members of the local Belarusian community and supporters rallying at the Kosciuszko statue in the Public Garden this evening against the dismantling of democracy there.

Although Tadeusz Kosciuszko may be best known in the US as a freedom-loving Polish colonel who helped us win independence, but he's also claimed by Belarusians, in part because his birthplace was in what's now Belarus (which back then was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth).

Earlier in the day, Damaskin photographed flowers and a flag left at the statue:

Belarus protest at Kosciuszko statue


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